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A protester holds up a sign reading “Protect Our Students” during a university-wide walkout hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at Marsh Plaza Friday. The protest featured faculty and student speakers from Boston University and surrounding universities and a march down Commonwealth Avenue. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

SJP holds ‘Liberation Week’ faculty, student walkout at Marsh Plaza

Emma Clement March 30, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a walkout Friday at Marsh Plaza featuring faculty and staff who support justice in Palestine to cap off its “Liberation Week” demonstrations.
A picture of the Boston University Student Activities Office with signs taped to the doors posted to the BU Students for Justice in Palestine Instagram account. Following this post, BU SJP announced it would be holding an emergency rally Wednesday. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

SJP placed on probation by SAO for referendum posters

Truman Dickerson March 3, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine was placed on probation by the Student Activities Office Monday for violating the University’s Publications and Publicity Policy.
People walk by the BUSI and BU Hillel memorial at Marsh Plaza on Oct. 7. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GALLERY: Protests, memorials organized around Boston in honor of Oct. 7

Kate Kotlyar October 10, 2024
Boston organizations and Boston University student groups held memorials, vigils and protests during the week of Oct. 6 in remembrance of the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, which occurred on Oct. 7, 2023.
A person writes the names of Palestinians who were killed in Gaza. Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine is holding multiple events this week for the anniversary of Oct. 7, including the writing of the names of victims. BARRETT WALSH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU Students for Justice in Palestine memorializes lives lost for Oct. 7 anniversary

George Lehman October 8, 2024
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a memorial event where members wrote the names of the more than 41,000 people killed in Gaza this past year since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
A student conceals their face with a sign displaying the Palestinian flag during a protest organized by Students for Justice in Palestine on Friday. The protest called on Boston University to divest funds from companies supporting Israel. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Students protest for BU to divest, call for cease-fire in Gaza

George Lehman February 20, 2024
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine called for a ceasefire in Gaza and the divestment of BU funding from companies supporting Israel on Friday in a march from Marsh Chapel to the Office of the President at 1 Silber Way.
Tents and signs set up on Marsh Plaza in a pro-Palestine demonstration on Thursday. Students for Justice in Palestine set up this display during a “global week of action” to represent the conditions of displaced people in Gaza. MATTHEW EADIE/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Students for Justice in Palestine display tents in response to displacement in Gaza

George Lehman January 26, 2024
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine set up tents at Marsh Chapel on Thursday which they said symbolized the conditions of Gaza's displaced people.
People listen to the Palestinian vigil at BU Beach on Wednesday. About 200 people were present. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU Students for Justice in Palestine host solidarity vigil after Israel’s retaliatory attacks

Katrina Scalise October 20, 2023
200 students attended Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine solidarity vigil at the BU Beach Wednesday night with Palestinian flags, flowers and candles, in response to Israel’s deadly retaliatory strikes on Gaza.
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OP-ED: The Mapping Project — A major threat to BU Students

Guest Writer February 13, 2023
The Mapping Project is an online interactive map of Massachusetts that lists roughly 500 local institutions connected to the Boston Jewish community, but the information it displays and rhetoric it promotes should be known for what it truly is — bigotry against Jews.
Palestine banner protest

‘Free Palestine’ banner dropped from College of Arts and Sciences roof

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 24, 2022
The SJP banner references the Deadly Exchange, a process by which law enforcement validates Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
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