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As Israel prevailed against the terrorism of the last decade, Palestinians and their allies put renewed energy into “soft warfare” to defeat the Jewish state. Their efforts coalesced around “BDS,” a campaign that calls for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against…
read moreOver the last month the UC Santa Barbara student government has been voting on a resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel. As a UCSB graduate and former student leader, I spoke at two senate hearings and worked…
read moreA troubling double standard appears to exist when it comes harassment at the publicly funded University of California. The University has taken strong action against harassment, physical assault, terrorization and targeting individuals on the basis of their ethnic origin or…
read moreFor some years, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin has been almost the sole faculty voice in the University of California system speaking out against harassment of Jewish students who support Israel. Here is an excerpt from a complaint she filed with the US Department of…
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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is proud to announce that thanks to generous support of the Koret Foundation, we will be presenting a series of four panel discussions on Northern California campuses: UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford…
read moreWithin Jewish communities here at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere, the question of Jewish identity in relation to Israel is one without any clear answer. For some, Jewishness is intimately tied to Israel, inseparable from it. For others, the state…
read moreThe photo went up Sunday night on a student’s Facebook page: Ashton Cohen was posing, one of the women in the image wrote jokingly, with his “three wives,” a campus paper reported. And the photo and caption ignited the latest skirmish…
read moreDear President Yudof: We appreciate your Open Letter to the University of California community, in which you forcefully condemn student hecklers at UC Davis who attempted to disrupt a pro-Israel event, and you clearly acknowledge that the hecklers’ behavior, “meant to deny…
read moreCALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (CS4AF), a group of 150 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, are concerned about the latest statements and actions of UC President Mark Yudof. The group believes that under the guise of promoting “civility…
read moreSAN FRANCISCO—The head of the University of California on Thursday condemned recent anti-Israel incidents on UC campuses and called for greater tolerance and civility. In an open letter, UC President Mark Yudof denounced hecklers who disrupted an event…
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