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In our nation today, we are witnessing an unprecedented unwillingness to accept, or merely recognize and respect, beliefs or behavior that differ from our own. It is the essence of intolerance, and it has unquestionably skyrocketed, traversing political divides, identities,…
read moreThe US Senate has unanimously passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by US Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Bob Casey (D-PA). If approved by the House, the bill will give the US Department of Education the statutory tools to examine…
read moreSince Donald Trump’s election, a wave of hate attacks have targeted Jews, Muslims and other vulnerable groups. What’s the government doing about it? Nothing. But the U.S. Senate did pass a bill last week called the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which…
read moreThe Problem This paper suggests how we can better protect the freedom of speech of outside speakers invited to UC, Davis, as well as that of the audiences who come to listen to them. It targets those protestors who disrupt…
read moreAs a part-time teacher at the University of California at Irvine Department of Continuing Education since 1998 and as a gentile – I have had occasion to follow and observe the anti-Israel movement on our campus as well as other…
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When a UCLA student first declared “holy war” against Milan Chatterjee, then-president of the school’s Graduate Students Association and the favored target of anti-Israel campus groups, few could have predicted that it would be waged with the help of an…
read moreUCLA Chancellor Block’s assertion that BDS ‘isn’t going to be sustained’ on this campus’ has never appeared to be anything but lip service as UCLA succumbs to a virulent form of anti-Semitism that has a Hindu in its cross-hairs. UCLA Graduate…
read more“Events like these are not welcome on our campus anymore.” —Head of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of California Davis addressing a group of more than 70 activists preparing to disrupt a Jewish student event about Israel.…
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Robert Gardner rarely heard anything about Israel growing up in South Los Angeles. But at UCLA, he started learning about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and seeing parallels with conflicts close to home. The African American senior likened Israeli crackdowns on Palestinian protesters to police…
read moreIt has become a summer ritual to predict that college campuses will erupt in anti-Israel activity, and, after 2014-15’s record number of antisemitic divestment resolutions, the fears were acute. It is too early to predict a trend, but indications are…
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