The antisemitic Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization is seeking to secure federal protection for its disruptive campus protests.

Filed against the University of Vermont (UVM), SJP claims they were suspended from campus activities due to anti-Palestinian bias and argued that the university’s actions are an attempt to “muzzle” freedom of expression.

“In a word, as a state instrumentality, the defendants have invoked state power to muzzle, to delegitimize it, and to give anyone else second thoughts about associating with it,” SJP legal representative John Franco tells Valley News. “UVM has chosen to weaponize procedural permitting issues and the student misconduct process to bully and intimidate UVMSJP and other students, chilling the exercise of their protected First Amendment rights.”

Separately, SJP filed a civil rights complaint against the University of Georgia (UGA), where several students were arrested in April for illegally occupying school property. The complaint accuses UGA of “extreme differential treatment” and engaging in a “McCarthyist campaign” against Arab students.

Critics argue that SJP’s activities often go beyond peaceful protest, citing multiple instances of property damage and violent support for terrorism. Just last week, the SJP chapter of Pomona College libelously accused Israel and the US of spreading the COVID-19 virus to maintain order through genocide.

“Pandemics are a tool of the colonizer,” an SJP pamphlet reads. “By bomb or by pathogen, these attacks on Palestinian life are man-made, intentional policy choices. The American state and Israeli settler colony have found a dress rehearsal for more targeted genocides in their construction of today’s eugenicist normalcy wherein everyone is expected to sustain repeated COVID infections indefinitely until death.”

A lawsuit filed against Columbia University alleges that SJP-linked follwers engaged in physical attacks on Jewish students, including one who suffered lacerations and a broken finger.