Academic Front For PLO

AIM reports:

The campus "divestment against Israel" campaign is known for its grassroots, media-grabbing student demonstrations, but was the entire movement actually orchestrated by Palestinian government operatives? It appears that University of Illinois Professor Francis A. Boyle, the man credited with initiating the campus divestment movement in November, 2000, was also moonlighting as a Palestinian strategist during the campaign's inception.

The goal of the campus boycott, sanctions, and divestment movement (BDS)-whose chapters usually go by the name Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-is to pressure universities into divesting from Israeli companies or companies that do business with Israel. Through the use of "social justice" rhetoric, the youth BDS campaign has attempted to portray itself as just another organic, liberal student movement. "We are organized on principles to promote justice, human rights, liberation, and self-determination," wrote the University of Pittsburgh SJP on their website. The campus organizations often claim that they are "dedicated to peace and justice in Palestine and Israel."