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| DATE | 2016-11-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Berkley and Left wing anti-semetism
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html
Disturbing
Berkeley’s Swastika Problem: Are America’s Liberal Colleges Breeding
Anti-Semitism?
From neo-Nazi graffiti at Berkeley to the grilling of a Jewish student
at UCLA, anti-Semitism is on the rise at liberal schools thought to be
bastions of political correctness.
Emily Shire
Emily Shire
03.19.15 9:25 AM ET
The grilling of student Rachel Beyda over whether she was unqualified to
join the UCLA’s student judicial board, merely because she is Jewish,
shocked people with its blatant display of anti-Semitism at one of the
nation’s most liberal schools.
“Given that you're very active in the Jewish community, how do you see
yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?” Fabienne Roth, a
member of UCLA’s Undergraduate Student Association Council, asked her.
After Beyda left the room, another member of the council opined, “I
don't know. For some reason I am not comfortable. I just don't know why.
I can definitely see she's qualified. I am just worried about her
affiliations.”
The remarks made during her questioning are disturbing, as is the fact
that these undergrads appear to be oblivious to how anti-Semitic they
sound. (The council passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism last
week in response to the uproar over Beyda’s confirmation, after the
writing was already on the wall, as it were.)
What’s even more frightening is that Beyda’s case was nothing new, a
run-of-the-mill example of the suspicions and hostility directed toward
the Jewish community at some of the most socially progressive campuses
across the country.
A majority of Jewish college students, 54 percent, reported being
subjected to or witness to anti-Semitism on campus during a six-month
period, according to a 2014 survey published by the Louis D. Brandeis
Center for Human Rights Under Law and Trinity College. Not only was this
survey undertaken before the violent summer conflict in Gaza, which
researchers Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar said led to a “worldwide
flare-up in anti-Semitism,” but they also noted that the “data suggest
there is an under-reporting of anti-Semitism through the normal campus
channels.”
Even more disturbingly, students reported that they often felt
universities did not take their concerns about anti-Semitism seriously.
“The response of many university faculty and administrators to Jewish
complaints and outrage often shows that their threshold for the
definition of the existence of the crime of anti-Semitism is set
ridiculously high,” write Kosmin and Keysar.
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