EXCLUSIVE — A coalition of organizations supporting Israel is requesting the Justice Department prosecute an influential college campus group over its “nationwide campaign of violently harassing, intimidating and silencing” Jewish students, according to a letter.
The letter, a copy of which was first obtained by the Washington Examiner, was sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday by the pro-Israel Zachor Legal Institute and dozens of other groups, including the Middle East Forum think tank, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Combat Antisemitism Movement, Israeli American Council, and Jewish Policy Center. The organizations told Garland that Students for Justice in Palestine, which has chapters on college campuses across the United States, is fostering “hate and discrimination.”
“The objectives of SJP’s campaign include preventing American Jews from exercising their First Amendment rights as well
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