News Feed Task Force NewsThe Reality of Campus Anti-Semitism Revisited Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary 08.19.2011 – 11:01 AM Back in April, I wrote to take issue with a statement written by Kenneth Stern of the American Jewish Committee and Cary Nelson, the president of the American Association of University Professors. The duo contended that a number of recent troubling [...]
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The following is an excerpt from a comment posted by a Jewish member of the Olive Tree Initiative in response to our post Olive Tree Initiatives “nefarious”connections? His entire comment can be read by scrolling down to the bottom of the post to the comment section. Are these the words of a student who has become overwhelmingly supportive [...]
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Note: Falk has taught UC Santa Barbara, at Chapman University and has appeared as a speaker at numerous anti-Israel events on Southern California Campuses including UCLA. Obama administration, Jewish groups, to U.N.: Sack Falk By Ron Kampeas · July 8, 2011 WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration, joined by U.S. Jewish groups, called for the United [...]
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While the Middle East and North Africa continue to roil in blood shed with governments in Libya and Syria gunning down civilians on a daily basis, the Muslim Student Union, fresh from its “suspension”, presents this years edition of hypocrisy and hatred :
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You can express your concern by clicking Here and vote against the support of one sided divestment resolutions against Israel Divestment Resolution Scrapped By Laira Martin The Guardian, U C San Diego Efforts stalled Wednesday to pass an A.S. Council resolution that called for the UC system to divest funds from non-neutral corporations currently providing technology [...]
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“Kauft Nicht Bei Juden” The BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) Movement. Is there any difference? Those who wish to harm the Jewish People and destroy of the State of Israel have designated March 30, 2011 as “Boycott Israel day”. You can help counter this world wide threat from haters and hypocrites by going to your local [...]
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The writer is a member of the Anteaters for Israel. We commend her for her courage in speaking out. OCITF We Are Number Twelve New University Cathy Shutaya | Mar 08, 2011 | The UN Declaration of Human Rights defines free speech as: “Everyone having the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right [...]
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NGO Monitor Combats Israel Apartheid Week and BDS Click here for BDS Sewer System Map Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2011 is underway in cities and on college campuses worldwide. This cynical anti-Israel activity, based on the campaign to falsely label Israel as an “apartheid state”, is part of a larger “Durban strategy” adopted at the [...]
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(Video courtesy OC Register) OC grand jury investigates protest at UC Irvine of Israeli diplomat’s speech KPCC has learned that the Orange County grand jury is investigating the Feb. 2010 disruption of an Israeli diplomat’s speech at UC Irvine. Members of UCI’s Muslim Student Union have been called to testify before the grand jury about [...]
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Kenneth L. Marcus is the director of The Anti-Semitism Initiative at the Institute for Jewish & Community Research and author of “Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America,” Cambridge 2010. He also teaches at Baruch College of the City University of New York.) Op-Ed: U.S. must enforce policy on campus harassment By Kenneth L. Marcus [...]
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Jewish group on ADL Top 10 anti-Israel list October 17, 2010 (JTA) — A Jewish organization is on the Anti Defamation League’s top 10 list of anti-Israel groups in America. Jewish Voice for Peace, based in Oakland, Calif., was on the list released Oct. 14 by the ADL of the most influential and active anti-Israel groups [...]
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(Beyond Hooka lounges, belly dancing and souvenir stands?) Hillel students and professionals gear up to face anti-Israel campus activism By Sue Fishkoff · August 16, 2010 ST. LOUIS (JTA) — Amanda Boris is nervous about what she’ll face when classes resume at the University of Wisconsin later this month. “There’s an uncomfortable amount of anti-Semitism [...]
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The OCITF expressed concern to University officials that during today’s anti-Israel rally, there was no police present except for an officer stationed in front of the administration building. The police officer remarked that “nothing will get done until somebody gets actually gets hurt”. It is unconscionable, given the level of overheated emotions, rhetoric and [...]
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From: Consulate General of Israel To: info@octaskforce.org Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 2:55 PM Subject: The Gaza Flotilla and the Maritime Blockade of Gaza The Gaza Flotilla and the Maritime Blockade of Gaza Israel regrets all loss of human life and injuries which came as result of the unfortunate events aboard the vessel Mavi Marmara [...]
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(Thanks Rabbi Drew) Notice he said Jews, not Zionist Jews. More video:
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(In his typically boring style.) Click “more” for Norms May 11 evening presentation. (Thanks Rabbi Drew)
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Listen very carefully to this disturbing video. (courtesy of Reut Cohen)
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Anti-Semitic Facebook page gains over 10,000 fans Profile displays graphic images, profanity against Jews, Israel and the United States.
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Courtesy of Gary Fouse: Comments and video are from: SFVoice4Israel — May 02, 2010 — A rash of swastikas recently appeared at UC Berkeley. A multi-cultural group of students and community members decided to mobilize in solidarity against hate speech on campus and organized the “Anti-Semitism is Hate” rally. Prof. Andrew Gutierrez (CASAS) repeatedly heckled [...]
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Jewish, Muslim students clash at UWM By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials said Friday that they will investigate whether student conduct rules were violated when Muslim and Jewish students clashed during a protest of a Jewish-sponsored event on campus Thursday.
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Sutton: Another UCSD flare-up demands official response By Marsha Sutton, SDNN [1]UCSD is embroiled in another cultural controversy. (Photo by Alex Hansen / Wikipedia Commons) Recent news that organized groups of students at the University of California, San Diego have criticized the nation of Israel and called upon the university to divest itself of economic [...]
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Note: To View the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) working definition of anti-Semitism Click Here ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Shades of 1930′s Germany: Israeli Apartheid Week: A Call to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel – May 10th – May 13st, 2010
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Attacking the deputy ambassador’s vehicle (Photo: Joe Sheffer) Photo Courtesy Ynetnews Haaretz:Israeli diplomat flees British anti-Israel demonstrators By Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent Talya Lador-Fresher, Israel’s deputy chief of mission at the Israeli embassy in London, had to be shuffled out a side door and into a “get-away” car by Manchester police on Wednesday, following a [...]
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Daily Cal Update: Divestment Battle Concludes With Failed Effort to Override Veto (Note: The ASUC (Berkeley) Senate did not finalize the 2010-11 budget at last night’s meeting, instead steering its full attention to determining the fate of a vetoed bill targeting companies involved in alleged Israeli war crimes. Read the Daily Cal story HERE)
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Update: This letter was email was received by OCITF this afternoon from President Gupta: To Whom It May Concern:
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Guest column: Rallying against hate Daily Diamondback Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow leader of the Civil Rights Movement, wrote in a 2002 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, “During an appearance at Harvard University shortly before his death, a student stood up and asked [...]
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Note: Vote to take place Wednesday, April 27 at 6:00 PM A.S. Resolution Draws Criticism From Pro-Israel Groups By Angela Chen Proponents say the measure is meant to condemn human-rights violations worldwide. An A.S. resolution demanding that the university stop working with companies associated with human-rights violations has come under fire from members of the [...]
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ASUC Senate Fails to Reach Consensus on Divestment Bill By Allie Bidwell | Friday, Apr 23, 2010 | Following more than two hours of deliberation in closed session, the ASUC Senate failed Wednesday night to come to a consensus on whether to override President Will Smelko’s March 24 veto of a bill targeting alleged…Read More»
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(No Olive Trees at Cal?) ASUC Senate Still Undecided on Vetoed Divestment Bill “By Allie Bidwell and Nick Myers | Thursday, Apr 15, 2010 Following a nearly nine-hour discussion that began at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday evening and lasted into Thursday morning, ASUC senators have yet to reach a decision on whether or not they would [...]
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Alumnus Now Has a Changed Perception of UC Berkeley By Linda Press Wulf Special to the Daily Cal Tuesday, April 13, 2010 I was at the senate meeting on the night of March 17 but had to leave around 1 a.m. to take my son home because he has AP exams at his high school [...]
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( Note: ASUC vote to take place Weds. April 14 at 7:00 PM) Regents Should Not Support the Divestment Bill By Brian Maissy Special to the Daily Cal Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Editor’s Note: This piece was written as a letter to the UC Board of Regents. As you are probably aware, bill 118, passed [...]
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Jewish Weekly Divestment debate to continue by April 8, 2010 | by Amanda Pazornic The fate of a divest-from-Israel resolution passed by the U.C. Berkeley student senate and vetoed by ASUC’s president a week later will likely be decided at a student senate meeting Wednesday, April 14.
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(Comment: Newspeak; Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public. See also: doublespeak.) Stand With the Eleven Answers Ambassador Oren’s Open Letter By Mengfei Chen New University Dear Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, In your open letter published in the New University, you propose a return to UC Irvine in order to [...]
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REQUEST FOR ACTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Click here R45-66
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Statement by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff regarding Israeli Apartheid Week Published on March 1, 2010 OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff made the following statement today: “On university campuses across the country this week, Israeli Apartheid Week will once again attempt to demonize and undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state. It is part of [...]
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Photo by: AP ‘Zionist regime seeks world control’ By JPOST.COM STAFF 28/02/2010 20:36 In a rant that reeked of old-fashioned anti-Semitism, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the “Zionist regime” was seeking to control the world. Addressing the International Conference on National and Islamic Solidarity for Future of Palestine, Ahmadinejad said that the existence [...]
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To View the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) working definition of anti-Semitism Click Here
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Minister Kenney Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (Marketwire) — 12/16/09 — Canada is putting a renewed focus on the new anti-Semitism, one predicated on the notion that the Jews alone have no right to a homeland, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney said today in Jerusalem. “Canada is not content to be [...]
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By Parisa Hafezi and Firouz Sedarat Parisa Hafezi And Firouz Sedarat TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a lie Friday, raising the stakes against Israel just as world powers try to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil. “The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of [...]
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In contrast to the comments in the previous post: ” …Hate speech is difficult to define precisely.” It is largely defined by the person individual hearing it: what some or many might find hateful or offensive, others may not….” UCI Chancellor Michael Drake ” Message on hate speech” May 26.2006. “..One persons hate speech is [...]
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Anti-Semitism on Campus—An Easy Target Student David Elmaleh discusses how the college campus has become a hub of anti-semitism Shouting, anti-religious slurs, evil glares and anti-Semitic rhetoric often get thrown my way as I walk through the halls during one of the countless anti-Israel demonstrations at York University. Am I a walking target? I often [...]
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NYU nixes disguised anti-Israel event April 28, 2009 NEW YORK (JTA) — New York University canceled an anti-Israel event disguised as an event about climate change. The event, originally slated for May 4, was titled “The Hidden History of Zionism: The Road to Gaza’s Killing Fields,” and its organizers promoted it with flyers around the [...]
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Full text of Ahmadinejads anti-Semitic rant at “Durban II” conference in Geneva “…The global Zionism is the complete symbol of racism, which with unreal reliance on religion has tried to misuse the religious beliefs of some unaware people and hide its ugly face. But what should be seriously considered are the goals of certain superpowers [...]
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Mar. 11, 2009 ELAN LUBLINER , THE JERUSALEM POST The fifth annual Israel Apartheid Week, which ended on Sunday, was a more popular, better attended, and more aggressive series of anti-Israel rallies and lectures than ever before.
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Sweden\’s anti-Israel apartheid policy is about more than sport Mar. 9, 2009 ABRAHAM COOPER and HAROLD BRACKMAN , THE JERUSALEM POST Neutral Sweden’s mixed World War II legacy is still debated by historians. On the one hand it supplied Nazi Germany with iron ore and ball bearings and allowed the Wehrmacht to use the Swedish [...]
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http://www.jewishjournal.com/ community_briefs/article/ican_ad_targets_student_boycotts_of_israel_20090304/ ICan Ad Targets Student Boycotts of Israel In the wake of Israel’s war in Gaza, anti-Israel rhetoric and anti-Semitism have once again flared up at some American universities. Now, as “Israel Apartheid Week” is being held on college campuses, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is fighting back with an ad campaign focusing on all [...]
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From JTA: Cops quell anti-Israel attack at York U By Ron Csillag · February 13, 2009 TORONTO (JTA) — Toronto police quelled tensions between Jews and anti-Israel activists at the campus of one of Canada’s largest universities for the second time in two weeks. Hillel@York, the on-campus club for Jewish students at Toronto’s York University, [...]
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2007-2008: Another Year of Global Academic Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism Sunday, September 14, 2008 – By: Gerstenfeld, Dr. Manfred …….The academic year 2007-2008 saw ongoing anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic incidents in various countries. Among them is Israel Apartheid Week, which has become an annual ritual in a number of cities on several continents. So have the calls [...]
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