A student group linked to antisemitism nationwide is urging Oklahoma officials to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from enforcing immigration law on Oklahoma campuses.

After 12 foreign students in Oklahoma reportedly had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, Students for Justice In Palestine (SJP) released a statement claiming the 12 students “were targeted as part of a larger effort to silence our movement” and calling the revocations “intimidation tactics” that “pose an even greater threat to our undocumented students.”

“This marks a dangerous intensification of the long-standing US tactic of threatening indiscriminate deportation, which has been used to crush movements and terrorize communities from the Red Scare to the War on Terror,” the SPJ statement declared. “We, the student movement, vow to resist the presence of ICE on our campus and utterly reject the unjust revocation of student visas.”

The statement demanded that Oklahoma college officials keep ICE agents off state campuses.

“We demand for our universities to declare themselves a safe sanctuary,” the statement read.

The statement was issued on behalf of the Students for Justice in Palestine at Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma, the OU College of Medicine, and the OU College of Law.

Students for Justice in Palestine chapters, as well as the organization’s national umbrella group, have been linked to antisemitism at colleges across the United States.

A 2018 report issued by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, “Students for Justice in Palestine Unmasked,” declared that Students for Justice in Palestine “is not a ‘grassroots’ student organization; it is a terror-supporting, anti-Semitic network that harasses and intimidates Israel-friendly students and operates with autonomy and impunity at scores of colleges and universities across the United States.”

The Anti-Defamation League notes that various Students for Justice in Palestine chapters have “justified and/or glorified the Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel,” and that the group’s members often engage in “antisemitic rhetoric and propaganda.”

At Oklahoma State University, a message from Students for Justice in Palestine was distributed touting a “week of rage” to oppose Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

Similarly, about a year after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, which included acts of mass murder, rape and kidnapping, OU Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a series of events as part of a “Week of Rage” directed at Israel’s response to the terrorist attacks.

In a letter released by the OU Student Coalition for Palestinian Liberation (the precursor to SPJ), the group declared that Israel is “an apartheid state” engaged in “a genocide campaign” and “crimes against humanity,” and that Israel’s actions are “not self defense.”

OU Students for Justice in Palestine has called for divestment from companies such as Chevron, which the SJP criticizes for operating a pipeline that is “an essential part of Israel’s crude oil supply chain.”

The group also called for boycotting the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl that pitted the University of Oklahoma football team against Navy last December. OU Students for Justice in Palestine renamed the event the “death bowl” since Lockheed Martin “manufactures weapons for genocide in Gaza and beyond.”