Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | The State of Affairs at U.S. Universities

On October 25, 2023, JVP activists gathered at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, and recited Kaddish (a Jewish prayer recited in mourning) for Hamas terrorists. It is estimated that more than 200 JVP members attended the rally, where slogans like "From the river to the sea" were heard. The Kaddish recitation was performed cynically in front of a counter-protest by pro-Israel activists, including Israeli families whose loved ones were injured or killed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre. In an interview, the organization's CEO, Stephanie Fox, and the Political Action Director, Beth Miller, both stated that Israel is the "root of the problem" of the violence. As early as 2022, a JVP activist named Ariel Koren remarked that Hamas activities align with the "Palestinian right to resistance."

A leaflet calling for an emergency protest titled "Hands off Yemen and Gaza."

The annual report on anti-Semitism by AMCHA in 2022 examined whether campuses in the U.S. are safe for Jewish students, including evidence of "efforts to detach Zionism from Judaism and present Zionism as opposed to progressive values, to blame Zionist Jews for excessive rights, power, and undue influence, and reflects a desire to cleanse Zionism and Zionists from campus life." The report also found that institutions with activity by organizations like JVP or similar anti Jewish and anti-Zionist groups such as SJP were at twice to three times the risk of experiencing threatening incidents directly related to Jewish identity, compared to universities with only SJP or similar organization activity. Anti-Zionist Jewish individuals and student groups like JVP were involved in more than 10% of the incidents targeting Jewish identity.

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