Documents from several California public universities reveal that activists with campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine received thousands of dollars in campus grants for their activities, which included funding for controversial anti-Israel speakers and highly charged political campus events.

Among the surprising revelations in the documents: San Diego State University’s “Associated Students” organization — which organizes the student government and campus cultural activities — covered travel expenses for students to attend the SJP’s 2014 national conference at Tufts University, where invited speakers included Muhammed Desai, the coordinator of South Africa’s boycott-Israel movement who just a year earlier defended those who chanted the words “shoot the Jew” at an anti-Israel rally.

TheBlaze viewed documents that appeared to show that the San Diego student association reimbursed SJP activists for round-trip flight tickets from San Diego to Boston for the 2014 Tufts event.

The documents, which were obtained through a California state freedom of information filing and thenanalyzed by NGO-Monitor — a Jerusalem-based research organization that tracks non-profits that promote a boycott of Israel — included travel grant applications, student association finance committee meeting minutes, grant approval letters, and flight ticket itineraries.