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| DATE | 2016-11-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Remember you can trust the left leaning
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On 11/16/2016 02:18 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
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> UC report on anti-Semitism draws ire
> Anti-Semitism Some Jewish students see threat to rights
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> By Nanette Asimov Updated 10:56 am, Thursday, August 9, 2012
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> Liz Jackson (left) and UC Berkeley students Roi Bachmutsky and Tom
> Pessah oppose the report's recommendations. Although many Jews identify
> with Israel, "that does not mean that any criticism of Israel is a
> criticism of Jews," Jackson said. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
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> Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
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> Liz Jackson (left) and UC Berkeley students Roi Bachmutsky and Tom
> Pessah oppose the report's recommendations. Although many Jews identify
> with Israel, "that does not mean that any criticism of Israel is a ... more
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> Katherine Orr had just started her freshman year at UC Berkeley last
> August when she was stunned to see five students in military fatigues
> carrying what looked like rifles and stopping students at Sather Gate.
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> "They were asking people, 'Are you Jewish?' They were trying to be like
> soldiers interrogating Palestinians along the border," Orr said. "They
> were re-enacting what was happening on the West Bank."
>
> To students who regard Israel as an essential Jewish homeland, this
> event and others like it that are staged each year on University of
> California campuses seem hostile, like poorly concealed anti-Semitism -
> especially when the Israeli flag with its Star of David is paired with a
> Nazi swastika, says a new report by a UC fact-finding team seeking to
> understand Jewish students' experiences.
>
> But to students who oppose Israeli policies and support such sensational
> protest methods, some recommendations by the team - that UC adopt a
> definition of anti-Semitism, prohibit hate speech and consider banning
> campus sponsorship of offensive activities - have become a new subject
> for protest.
>
> More than 2,200 students, faculty and alumni - many of them Jewish -
> have signed a petition asking UC President Mark Yudof to set aside the
> report. Two letters sent last month to Yudof from Jewish students and
> from Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students and their supporters made
> similar points.
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-report-on-anti-Semitism-draws-ire-3774302.php
>
Shaky harmony
Mistrust among student groups has festered for years. But 2010 was
especially rough for multiethnic harmony:
Swastikas appeared in numerous locations at UC Berkeley and UC Davis.
Also at Davis, someone defaced the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Resource Center with derogatory words.
Ohhh
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