Hunting Down Jews and UC Schools: Watch This

The problems the Muslim Students are causing for Jewish students on college campuses are not limited to UC Irvine.  I encourage you to watch this video of David Horowitz, who was visiting UC San Diego during the Muslim Student Union’s version of Israel Apartheid Week on Monday.  He has a very interesting exchange with a UC San Diego Muslim student and the YouTube video has drawn more than 40,000 views in less than 24 hours.

Horowitz asks the student to condemn Hamas which she will not do.  The crux of the three-minute video comes near the end.

If you have not been able to get to UCI this week, here is a photo sample from the Muslim Student Union’s handy work.

Muslim Student Union with clear propaganda message for students passing by

MSU propaganda at UC Irvine

Jewish Federation Orange County, Stand With US and other concerned students and  faculty showed up to the MSU’s Hate Week events on Monday to make sure they were seen and heard.

UC Irvine, Faculty and Israel

Welcome to Day 2 of Hate week at UC Irvine, better known by the Muslim Student Union organizers as Israel Apartheid Week.  We will have more about today’s events in tomorrow’s blog.  For now, I thought this was an interesting discovery from professors at UC Irvine.  The following letter was discovered and will reportedly be seen in the New University, UC Irvine’s campus newspaper next week.

Revised list May 10, 2010

We, faculty at the University of California–Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis. The troubling events over the past few years include the
painting of swastikas in university buildings, the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika, a statement (by a speaker repeatedly invited by the Muslim Student Union) that the Zionist Jew is a party
of satan, a statement by another MSU speaker that the Holocaust was God’s will, the tearing down of posters placed by the student group Anteaters for Israel, and the hacking of their web site. Some
community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe.

Some of these actions are protected by the First Amendment and in no way do we want to limit freedom of speech.  We welcome open dialogue among all members of the UCI community.  We respect and value our
Muslim colleagues, including those members of the MSU who support and encourage open dialogue and civility on campus.  At the same time, we
take issue with hate-promoting actions that we find unacceptable. They run counter to the peaceful co-existence and civility that are
essential to a university environment. Actions that demonize and derogate others, such as the previous events that have occurred on our
campus noted above, have contributed to UCI’s developing a growing reputation as a center of hate and intolerance.  Our campus deserves
better.

Signed:

Marlon Boarnet, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design
Matthew Brenner, Professor, Department of Medicine
Dan Cooper, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering
Rina Dechter, Professor, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
George Farkas, Professor, Department of Education
Paul Feldstein, Robert Gumbiner Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business
Gary Fouse, Adjunct teacher, University Extension
Stephen Franklin, Lecturer, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Jean Fried, Project Scientist, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design
Sheldon Greenfield, Donald Bren Professor, School of Medicine
Amihai Glazer, Professor, Department of Economics
Dan Hirschberg, Professor, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Zeev Kain, Professor, Anesthesiology & Pediatrics & Psychiatry
Tatiana Kain, Chair and Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sherrie Kaplan, Executive Co-Director, Center for Health Policy Research
Mark I. Langdorf, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Seymour Menton, Research Professor, Department of  Spanish & Portugese
Dana Mukamel, Professor, Department of Medicine
Mark I. Langdorf, Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine
Marc Lerner, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Frank Meyskens, Professor of Medicine, Biological Chemistry and Public Health
David Neumark, Professor, Department of Economics
Alex Nicolau, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Raymond W. Novaco, Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
Richard Pattis, Lecturer, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Shlomit Radom-Aizik, Postdoc, Department of Pediatrics
Roberta Seid, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences
Roxane Cohen Silver, Professor Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
Etel Solingen, Chancellor’s Professor, Political Science
Dara Sorkin, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine
Eugene Spiritus, Chief Medical Officer, UCI Medical Center
Hal Stern, Professor, Department of Statistics
Dan Stokols, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Planning, Policy,
and Design and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
Jerome Tobis, MD, Professor emeritus (recalled)
Gene Tsudik, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Alex Veidenbaum, Professor, Department of Computer Science
Mark Warschauer, Professor of Education and Informatics
Hadar Ziv, Lecturer/Research Scientist, Department of Informatics

Fasten Your Seat Belts. Here We Go.

Last week, I was on the UCI campus and visited with a group of students from Anteaters for Israel.  As I left the campus building, I noticed the picture you see to the right of this post:  It says — Get Ready For — Week 7 — Israel Apartheid Week, Which is better known to many on campus and the community at large as Hate Week.  That’s right.  Steup up and hear, see and read all of the Anti Israel protests from the Muslim Student Union as it garners publicity and attention while going on yet another crusade against Israel.

In the May issue of the Orange County Jewish Life, writer Aaron Elias characterized this week-long program where “the MSU brings speakers to campus for a week-long diatribe of hate directed at the state of Israel.”

Let’s see now.  Where are those positive, bridge-building programs the MSU has created to help better relations with the Jewish students on campus?  Not there.  You have never seen it on a MSU syllabus because to date they have not created programs to help better build relations.  Not part of the agenda.

That said, thanks to the ADL, here is the known current programming by the MSU for Hate Week 2010.

Monday, May 10

ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT

With professor Hatem Bozain

8 – 9 pm Crystal Cove Ballroom

Tuesday, May 11

“THIS TIME WE WENT TOO FAR: The Gaza Invasion” With Norm Finklestein

Wednesday, May 12

“UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ISRAEL”

With Dr. William Robinson

8 – 10 pm  UCI Crystal Cove Ballroom

Thursday, May 13

“Apartheid IsReal”

With Omar Shakir

5 – 7 pm UCI Crystal Cove Ballroom

As for UCI’s Jewish students.  They hold an annual event but with a different twist.  It is called ifest.  A positve, week-long celebration of Israel culture, aid, technological innovations and contributions held after Hate Week.  I was on campus visiting with UCI student leaders.  Their feedback was clear.  They prefer to focus on the positive events going on in and around UCI for the Jewish students.  As we get closer to the good stuff happening on campus, I will cover it so you can join the celebrations.