We need your help.
Dear AMCHA Initiative supporters,
Yesterday we sent a letter to the Presidents of CSU Fresno, CSU Northridge, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, as well as CSU Chancellor Reed, urging them to revoke administrative sponsorship of a speaking tour by Ilan Pappe.
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli Jewish academic who harbors deep animosity towards the Jewish state, has publicly called for its elimination, and engages in activities to harm its citizens, such as a campaign to boycott Israeli academics, which he helped to found. In addition, he openly supports the terrorist organization Hamas and falsely accuses Israel of “crimes against humanity,” including “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.”
On these three CSU campuses, Pappe’s talk is officially sponsored and funded by University departments and administrative offices. In addition on each campus the event is being organized and promoted by a faculty member or top university administrator who has publicly expressed his or her hatred of Israel and has participated in many anti-Israel events, including the campaign to boycott Israeli academics.
It is important to note that our concern is not with Ilan Pappe’s talk per se, but rather with the fact that his talk is being organized and promoted by faculty and administrators of the California State University system, using the name, resources, and imprimatur of CSU, in order to vilify and harm the Jewish state and its supporters.In this way, taxpayers like us are subsidizing the promotion of hateful indoctrination in our nation’s largest public university.
Please click here to view the letter.
You can also watch the following AMCHA video to learn about CSU’s support for Ilan Pappe’s speaking tour:
Please consider sending your own respectful letter to one or more of the following individuals, asking them to ensure that official university sponsorship and funding is withdrawn from Ilan Pappe’s talks at the three CSU campuses:
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CSU Fresno President John Welty: johnw@csufresno.edu
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Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong: presidentsoffice@calpoly.edu
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CSU Northridge Interim President Harold Hellenbrand:harry.hellenbrand@csun.edu
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CSU Chancellor Charles Reed: creed@calstate.edu
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CSU Trustees: lhernandez@calstate.edu
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California State Senator Tom Berryhill (Fresno): senator.berryhill@senate.ca.gov
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California State Assemblyman Henry T. Perea (Fresno):Assemblymember.Perea@assembly.ca.gov
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California State Assemblywoman Linda Halderman (Fresno): assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov
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California State Senator Sam Blakeslee (San Luis Obispo):senator.blakeslee@senate.ca.gov
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California State Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian (San Luis Obispo): assemblymember.achadjian@assembly.ca.gov
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California State Senator Alex Padilla (Northridge): Senator.Padilla@sen.ca.gov
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California State Assemblyman Bob Blumenfeld (Northridge): assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov
If you do send a letter, please copy or blind-copy us at: administrator@AMCHAinitiative.org
Thank you!
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Tammi@AMCHAinitiative.org
Leila Beckwith
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Leila@AMCHAinitiative.org