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Members of Boston University’s former Students for Justice in Palestine rally at Marsh Plaza March 5 after being placed on probation by the Student Activities Office. SJP and BU’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America both faced disciplinary action from SAO during the spring semester.

SJP, YDSA face disciplinary action at BU, raises concerns over free expression

By Nicole Abrams June 6, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine and the University’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America faced disciplinary action from the Student Activities Office this spring semester.
Boston University Student Government’s Disclosure, Divestment and Reinvestment referendum survey. The survey is available through BU’s Qualtrics and requires a BU ID and email to fill out after the referendum was previously passed and later nullified because of security concerns. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

StuGov reopens SJP referendum vote

By Julia Hendler February 20, 2025
Boston University Student Government announced Wednesday it is relaunching the Disclosure, Divestment and Reinvestment Referendum survey after the first vote’s results were nullified.
Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. Boston University students held an independent town hall meeting at HTC Sunday, where speakers discussed community activism participation and the fate of the University-wide divestment referendum bill. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU Resistance Network holds leftist student town hall in Howard Thurman Center

By Eli Pekelny February 18, 2025
Boston University students held an independent student organizing town hall at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday, where speakers discussed participating in community activism and the fate of the University-wide divestment referendum bill.
Boston University Florence and Chafetz Hillel House. The results of the divestment referendum survey were nullified Monday due to “security and technological issues,” according to an announcement by BU’s student government. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU SJP referendum results nullified, future divestment efforts uncertain

By Truman Dickerson, City Co-Editor February 14, 2025
The results of a campus-wide divestment referendum survey were nullified Monday due to “security and technological issues,” according to an announcement from Boston University Student Government.
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

By 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

By 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

By 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.
Demonstrators marching to the gates of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Nov. 4

Boston students join tens of thousands in march on Washington, call on Biden, Netanyahu for cease-fire

By Matthew Eadie November 7, 2023
WASHINGTON — Students from universities and colleges across Boston joined tens of thousands of people from all around the country in a march on the nation’s capital on Nov. 4, calling on President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
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

By 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.
Palestine banner protest

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

By Jesús Marrero Suárez March 24, 2022
The SJP banner references the Deadly Exchange, a process by which law enforcement validates Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
The Young Democratic Socialists of America held a town hall March 20. The meeting aimed to build solidarity between students, alumni and faculty in attendance as they listened to activists from multiple student organizations speak. BAYLE VINES/DFP STAFF

Student, faculty activists share roadblocks, achievements at YDSA town hall

By Fiona Broadie March 22, 2022
Representatives from BU SJP, SRF and 'Q' shared their frustrations at the administration and updates on their activism.
Map of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan

BU students with ties to Israel and Palestine share personal stories, frustrations amid more than 230 deaths in Gaza, 12 in Israel before cease-fire

By Jesús Marrero Suárez May 23, 2021
The 11-day period of violence heightened antisemitism, Islamophobia and division in the region.
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