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Students for Justice in Palestine at DePaul University will not have official club status until fall 2027, following a decision by school officials.
“DePaul SJP has been subject to the university’s disciplinary process and is currently suspended until fall 2027,” a spokesman told Jewish News Syndicate on Tuesday. “While on suspension, student organizations do not have access to university funds or space reservations.”
The punishment is due to the group’s decision to keep posting on social media, despite a previous sanction that ordered it to stop.
Jewish News Syndicate reported:
The group shared images that appeared to show that it had been sanctioned on Aug. 6 after administrators determined that an SJP social-media post in May stated that Israel is “the world’s largest skin bank” and that there are “documented cases of organ and skin theft from Palestinian bodies.” The language violated university policy.
Under the Aug. 6 sanction, which was set to last until June 15, 2026, the chapter was “restricted from all operations, including events, use of official student organization social-media accounts, recruitment, space reservation and funding,” per the student group’s post.
DePaul extended the sanctions because the activists continued to violate the restrictions.
“Instead of allowing the students to have a say in where their tuition dollars go, Robert Manuel’s Administration would rather drown the only Palestinian student club at DePaul in sanctions to prevent them from advocating for themselves,” the group wrote on Instagram.
“It is clear where DePaul’s values lie, greed, death, and destruction,” the pro-Palestinian club stated. “When the students are advocating to stop the funding of war crimes across the world, DePaul silences us and allows the Board of Trustees to line their pockets with blood money.”
The organization said the university leadership is not living up to its “Vincentian Mission,” by “funding genocide and silencing students.”
“Vincentian Mission” refers to the school’s ties to the Catholic religious order, founded by St. Vincent de Paul, whom the school is named for.
The activists said they will keep up their work and ended with a call to “free Palestine.”
The Catholic university, meanwhile, has also prohibited a Planned Parenthood student group from operating on campus, as The College Fix previously reported.
Like the pro-Palestinian students, the club also said its values are “Vincentian.”
