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University of California regents are going back to the drawing board to rewrite a statement about intolerance after a proposed version was heavily criticized as being meaningless. “More work needs to be done,” UC President Janet Napolitano said Thursday at…
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The first draft of a document aimed at curbing anti-Semitism on University of California campuses was rejected Thursday by UC regents, in part because it didn’t include the phrase “anti-Semitism.” Though students and others have chronicled incidents described as anti-Semitic…
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The University of California’s regents voted Thursday to scrap a proposed speech code after protests from free speech groups who called it a form of censorship, as well as from Jewish groups who said it did not do enough to…
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It’s been a half-century since the Free Speech Movement was born on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley, inspiring nationwide protests and creating the principle of unfettered expression on campus. On Thursday, UC regents debated a modern-day sequel:…
read moreIRVINE, Calif. — Under pressure from Jewish organizations, members of the University of California’s governing board called for an overhaul of a proposed set of system-wide principles against intolerance, saying it should explicitly address anti-Semitism. About two dozen people gave…
read moreAs a UC professor, privy to a front-row seat, I know firsthand that being a Jewish student is not what it was like a mere five or 10 years ago. Anti-Semitism on campus is rising at an alarming and frightening…
read moreCanary Mission’s sin? The Guardian: Canary Mission went live in mid-May and includes profiles of 54 people, primarily university students and professors, with photos and links to their social media profiles. “It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals…
read moreThe politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict keep seeping into campus life at the University of California. In 2010, a group of Muslim student protesters disrupted a UC Irvine speech by the Israeli ambassador and later faced school discipline and criminal…
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The infamous Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and “apartheid week” displays on college campuses are not the only threat to Jewish students. A much greater threat looms: the inability for students to publicly defend their beliefs. While universities claim…
read moreIn October 2014, 40 professors of Jewish studies published a denunciation of a study that named professors who have been identified as expressing “anti-Israel bias, or possibly even antisemitic rhetoric.” While the 40 academics claimed they reject anti-Semitism totally as part…
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