Jewish students urged to avoid UC Irvine

[Tina Greco - Melbourne]

Jewish students urged to avoid UC Irvine
By    Published: 02/14/2008

Anti-Semitism is so rampant at the University of California-Irvine that Jewish students should avoid enrolling, a new report says.

An unaffiliated task force made up of Jewish residents of Irvine conducted 80 hours of interviews with students, faculty and residents and determined that

anti-Semitic acts are “real and well documented” on campus, according to an article in the local Daily Pilot.

“Jewish students have been harassed. Hate speech has been unrelenting,” the report alleges. The report takes faculty to task for “political correctness” that prevents them from speaking out against anti-Israel events and speakers sponsored by the school’s very active Muslim Student Union.

The report comes two months after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights completed its own report, which states the university does not discriminate against Jewish students.

Chacellor Michael Drake declined to participate in the task force’s investigation, the Pilot reports. Pilot reporters did not speak to anyone from the Muslim Student Union.

The task force was created by the Hillel Foundation of Orange County in February 2007 to investigate anti-Semitism at the university following a series of clashes between Jewish and Muslim student groups. Hillel dropped the investigation last summer, but the task force continued working on its own.

The task force report supports the Muslim Student Union’s right to free speech, but demands that the university take stronger action against “hateful” speech, and speech calling for the destruction of Israel. It also takes Jewish groups, including the federation, the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel to task for not supporting Jewish students more vigorously.

Jeffrey Rips, executive director of Hillel at UC Irvine, told JTA that Jewish life on campus is thriving. He says there are nearly 1,000 Jewish students, a strong Jewish fraternity and sorority life, and between 50 and 120 students each Friday night at Hillel’s Shabbat meals.

[newman]

Does anyone know if any wealthy Jews are benefactors to this place?

[Tina Greco - Melbourne]

It would be good if they did, then can add pressure to them.

[ChaimBenMordechai]

I also urge Jewish students to avoid the University of South Florida. It is run by a self-hating Jewess named Dr. Judith Genschaft, who apart from the token move of firing that Muslim nazi scum Sami Al-Arian, has done nothing against the powerful anti-Jewish Muslim bloc (both students and faculty) at USF. One leader of this bloc is a Dr. Larry Z. Leslie, a white convert to Islam who bans Jews from his classes and when he was in charge of the Journalism department banned Jewish students from taking any classes in that field. Leslie is still teaching at USF and is still not allowing "the oppressors of his brothers and sons of slave traders" to be in HIS classes.