GOP Reps Want Prosecution and Funding Cuts for Students for Justice in Palestine

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Colorado Boulder is facing calls from Republican members of Congress to be dismantled after it championed an arsonist who was convicted with killing an 82-year-old Jewish woman in Boulder last year.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the student group recently posted their support online for Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who was sentenced to life in prison in May for the June 1, 2025, murder of Karen Diamond.

“One year ago today, Mohamed Sabry Soliman took direct action against the Zionist death cult festering in our city. He struck against the colonist procession that gathers weekly to celebrate the pretext for ongoing genocide,” the student group wrote in their statement, Jerusalem Post reported.

The group also claimed that the government’s designation of Soliman as a terrorist is a government-sponsored version of the truth.

“The state would have us believe that Mohamed took the action he did because he is insane—a fanatic, a terrorist, guilty of a hate crime—but we know the truth, and we reject the state’s inversion of it,” the group allegedly wrote.

The group’s statement of support continued: “Mohamed chose the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide. He refused the comfortable position of the grateful immigrant and the role of obedient subject, choosing confrontation with a violent system over passive proximity to the comfort of empire.”

In a statement to the Daily Signal, the University of Colorado Boulder called the group’s comments “abhorrent” and said it does not recognize Students for Justice in Palestine as an official university student organization.

Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla. and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called for the university to lose federal funding until the student group is disbanded and its members prosecuted.

“I wouldn’t give them a freaking dollar,” Mast told the Daily Signal. “Our job is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. If they are violating the law, then we should bring down the hammer on them.”

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., agreed with his colleague’s statement and told the Daily Signal that the university shouldn’t receive any more federal grants.

“A Muslim terrorist should never be recognized on American university campuses,” Fine said about students who support Soliman.

The controversial student group has already been banned from many American college campuses over its questionable financial trail and harassment toward Jewish students, as reported by The College Fix.

The College Fix noted that Indiana University Professor Günther Jikeli found in a 61-page report that the group associates with other groups outside of university campuses to push antisemitic rhetoric toward Jewish students.

However, many colleges still recognize the student group as a legitimate student organization.

For instance, the group has used similar language or speech in the past. As reported by The College Fix, the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of California, Berkeley, features the logo of the terrorist organization Hamas on their university webpage.