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‘Fight UC Irvine Campus Anti-Semitism’
150 150 Michal Lando

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1207238156184&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull A group of students at University of California, Irvine – known as one of the more militant campuses in the country when it comes to anti-Israel activity – took the chancellor to task in a news release this week for failing to adequately respond to the ongoing incidents on campus. The 20 current and…

Muslim Reformer’s ‘Heresy’: The Islamic State is a Dead End
150 150 Jane Lampman

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p01s01-usgn.htm Abdullahi Ahmed an-Naim has seen what can happen to an Islamic reformer: His mentor was executed in 1985 in Sudan; he himself had to flee the country. Still, the self-described “Muslim heretic” has no trouble traveling the Islamic world spreading his controversial message: There is no such thing as an Islamic state. A secular…

Jewish Students Divided Over Chancellor Drake’s Response to Anti-Semitism at UC-Irvine
150 150 Emily Tall

Leaders of Jewish student groups at UC-Irvine expressed support for Chancellor Drake’s response to anti-semitism at UC-Irvine, while other current and former students released a statement voicing their deep concern at the Chancellor’s failure to act decisively to condemn anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attacks on campus. Two Hillel co-presidents, the presidents of a Jewish fraternity, Alpha…

‘Israel Apartheid Week’ under fire
150 150 Abe Selig

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1206632388469 During Israel Apartheid Week, which took place on the University of Toronto campus in February, the student body was presented with a flurry of information by anti-Israel activists, linking Israel’s policies toward Palestinians with South Africa’s former policy of segregation. Now, a group professors at the university wants to make sure it doesn’t happen…