They Said Justice. They Meant Jihad.

By Abe Greenwald

Friday, October 17, 2025

 

Turns out, I’ve been somewhat mistaken. I’ve previously said and written that anti-Israel activists have been silent since the cease-fire took effect and Hamas started publicly executing Gazans. That’s not entirely true. Earlier in the week, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) fully endorsed Hamas’s new round of slaughter and encouraged the group to keep up the work. “Death to the occupation. Death to Zionism. Death to all collaborators,” SJP posted on social media. The language shows the group in perfect lockstep with Hamas, which claims that those now being hanged and shot in Gaza are Zionist collaborators.

 

SJP has long been the foremost anti-Israel college-activist organization. It’s been at the heart of the campus horrors for the past two years. But its activities go back far longer than that. The group was founded 32 years ago and has worked tirelessly at spreading Jew-hatred under the cover of “social justice” ever since. New York City mayoral shoo-in Zohran Mamdani launched Bowdoin College’s SJP chapter in 2013. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, delivered the keynote speech at SJP’s first national conference in 2011.

 

Here's a suggested question for the moderators of the next New York City mayoral debate: “Mr. Mamdani, when you were first asked if Hamas should lay down its weapons, you said that you had no opinion on the matter. Then, when asked again in the last debate, you said, ‘Of course, I believe they should lay down their arms.’ The organization Students for Justice in Palestine is now publicly encouraging Hamas not only to stay armed but to kill so-called collaborators in Gaza. Given that you founded your college’s chapter of SJP and have been involved with the group ever since, how do you square their position with your claim to support the Palestinian people?”

 

It would be fun to watch him take a shot at that. Those, such as father and son Mamdani, who’ve been intimately entangled with SJP surely know that it’s a straightforwardly pro-Hamas (and generally pro-jihad) organization. That’s why they got involved.

 

But the question will never be asked because it also exposes the media’s complicity in pretending that the Jew-hating zealots of the woke jihad were actually concerned for suffering Gazans. In May, for example, Sharon Otterman of the New York Times described SJP as “the most organized pro-Palestinian group on many college campuses.” A month after Hamas’s October 7 attack, the Times’ Alan Blinder characterized SJP as “perhaps the most popular and divisive campus organization championing the Palestinian cause.” What say you now, Otterman? Blinder?

 

Probably not much. While the committed Hamasniks are coming out of the closet, their liberal followers and enablers will likely make themselves scarce. They were conned. That’s the way leftist radicalism works. The true believers pitch well-meaning liberals a sweet-sounding story to get them on board. And, boy, did it work this time.

 

The war is over, and the part-time anti-Zionists have left the stage, most still thinking they were part of something noble. But the work of their groomers, the full-time terror propagandists, doesn’t end when the war stops. Groups like SJP will cheer so long as some jihadist, somewhere, is killing someone in the name of Palestine.