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http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/05/1008329/zoa-probe-students-for-hamas-fundraising NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish group called on federal authorities to probe University of California, Irvine students for allegedly raising funds for Hamas. In a letter dated Oct. 2, the Zionist Organization of America urged the U.S. Department…
read morehttp://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/the_crucible_of_uc_irvine_20090527/ Universities, like religions, are often judged not by what they preach but by what they tolerate. This painful truth came to mind upon reading Neelie Genya Milstein’s op-ed article in these pages, “Protecting Hate at UC Irvine” (May 22,…
read morehttp://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-21-2009/0005030903&EDATE = CHICO, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East commends the courage and moral clarity recently displayed by Mark Yudof, President of the University of California. Exercising the freedom…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-professor30-2009apr30,0,7753995.story Controversy has erupted at UC Santa Barbara over a professor’s decision to send his students an e-mail in which he compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures of Palestinians caught up in Israel’s recent Gaza offensive.…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: SPME prints this as a public service to its readers. Its publications does not constitute and endorsement of this effort. SPME has consistently taken a stand against academic boycotts and believes they are antithetical to academic freedom…
read morehttp://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/ucla_symposium_on_gaza_ignites_strong_criticism_20090211/ Academic seminars are so numerous at UCLA that they rarely have much of an afterlife, but this has not been the case with the symposium on “Human Rights and Gaza” held Jan. 21 on campus. Even three weeks later,…
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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is lecturer in Hebrew at the University of California, Santa Cruz.She is cofounder of the UCSC chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Since 2001, anti-Zionist discourse has found its way into classrooms and academic events…
read moreReleased on the evening of January 28, 2009 as a reaction to events in the University of California system, University of Toronto, McGill University and with the withdrawal of study in Israel programs at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers and…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2812 Since 2001, anti-Zionist discourse has found its way into classrooms and academic events at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). At an academic conference held on that campus in 2007, the speakers claimed that Zionism was an illegitimate…
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http://www.terrorismawareness.org/campus-news/278/uc-irvines-pro-israel-website-hacked-by-islamists/ UC Irvine’s pro-Israel website, anteatersforisrael.org, has been hacked into by cyber-jihadists. Anteaters for Israel is more of a cultural organization than a political club. Islamic music praising “Allah” starts moments after visiting the website. The organization should seriously consider…
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