Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a student activist group with over 200 chapters in the United States and Canada. The organization has a long history of engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and harassing Jewish students on college campuses across America. SJP made headlines in 2023 when its national leadership organized a “day of resistance” immediately in the wake of the October 7, 2023, attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists. The organization said that the October 7 attacks, which left more than 1,200 Jews dead, was “a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity.” SJP chapters across the country have also been accused of vandalism, including spray-painting antisemitic graffiti on university property. Some chapters of SJP are even more explicit in their support for terrorism, with the SJP chapter of CUNY Law stating, “If you support Palestine understand that necessitates supporting our right to defend ourselves and liberate our homeland by any means necessary.” A chapter of SJP at George Washington University projected “glory to our martyrs” on the side of a campus building in further support of Hamas terrorism. On February 27, 2025, Barnard College dean Leslie Grinage was held captive by pro-Hamas members of Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD). Reports claim that two university employees were physically assaulted, the campus was vandalized, and classes were canceled. Protesters were calling for the reinstatement of two pro-Hamas classmates who were expelled for interrupting a History of Modern Israel class with antisemitic propaganda. Grinage was eventually released and the protest moved from the university to the streets of New York City.