SJP at Colorado University Demands Release of Terrorist Killer

 Hat tip to The College Fix

Just when you thought Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a national network of university chapters that has wreaked havoc on most every campus where it exists, could get any lower, we get this from Colorado University. The campus chapter of SJP has demanded the release of a convicted Egyptian terrorist, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who carried out a firebombing that killed one person and injured several others at an event last year dedicated to the release of hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023. You can read the details from The College Fix here.

Is there a more despicable organization in the US today than SJP, which was co-founded by University of California at Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, who has made anti-Semitic statements publicly ever since he washed up on our shores as a student at San Francisco State University? With chapters on about 150 campuses across the country, this group has gone far beyond advocating for the Palestinian cause and condemning Israel (which are within their rights). It engages in tactics of disruption, threats, bullying, and violence against those who defend Israel. It defends Hamas, a terrorist organization, and condones the horrors of October 7, 2023. And now, this bunch in Colorado is demanding the release of Soliman. Free speech? Yes. Despicable? Absolutely.

When will universities all over the nation stand as one and ban this bunch permanently? When will our Justice Department treat SJP as it is in my opinion, a criminal organization? As to the former question, I don’t have a lot of faith in our universities to take such action. All I see are temporary suspensions, which are cosmetic and insufficient. (According to the linked article, SJP is “unrecognized” at CU.) And yet, universities have every right not to allow disruptive groups that advocate hate and violence on their campuses. Would any university allow a KKK chapter on its campus? No.

As to the latter, I have considerably more faith that the current Justice Department, under Trump, is looking at this very possibility, maybe under our RICO statutes. That was almost certainly not the case under Biden, but it would not shock me if something appropriate might occur under this administration.