Israel/Palestine

8. We would be remiss if we did not address directly calls for SJP to be banned from CUNY campuses. Our investigation does not support that action. There is a tendency to blame SJP for any act of anti-Semitism on any CUNY campus. That is a mistake. The student who shouted Zionist at the chairperson at the Faculty Counsel meeting was not an SJP member. Nor is there any evidence linking SJP to the swastikas found at John Jay and CSI or the anti-Semitic scribblings at Brooklyn College. And although SJP led the Million Student March, those we can identify (by affiliation though not name) as engaging in threatening behavior were not SJP members. Regrettably, CUNY has also seen its share of Islamophobia. The defacement of a poster of the President of an SJP Chapter -- a poster that sought to promote study abroad -- is but one example. No fair-minded person would attribute that conduct to Hillel, and SJP should be judged by the same standards.