“Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front” a documentary film centering on five Israeli soldiers and produced by the pro-Israel organization, Jerusalem U, will screen at University of California, Irvine (UCI) on Wednesday as part of what a press release is calling “A Safe Space for Free Speech event.”\n
A May 18 protest at UC Irvine, staged by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to oppose the screening of a film about soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has been swiftly and strongly denounced by the university’s chancellor, Howard Gillman.\n
In a speech May 5 on the San Diego State University campus, conservative author and activist David Horowitz defended fliers posted by his organization, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, at SDSU.
After months of anticipation over whether the University of California’s Board of Regents would adopt a definition of anti-Semitism in the wake of several anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents across its campuses, the UC’s governing arm rejected a “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” drafted by the office of UC President Janet Napolitano at its Sept. 17 meeting in Irvine.
Student leaders at Northeastern University rejected a resolution that had the Boston school divesting from companies doing business with Israel.
When someone punches you in the face, there are three ways to fight back: One, you punch him back. Two, you complain to authorities. Three, you drive him crazy.
For several years now, a nasty anti-Israel group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has bludgeoned Israel’s image on college campuses.
In an interview with the Journal two days after the appearance at UCLA of a spate of posters inscribed with the words #JewHaters that link the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with the terrorist group Hamas, David Horowitz — a well-known right-wing activist and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center — for the first time admitted responsibility for the posters.
Posters linking the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) with Hamas – the Islamist terror group that controls the Gaza Strip – were spotted Sunday at several locations around UCLA. The posters also appeared at other campuses nationally. At UCLA, campus police quickly took them down.
A University of California student committee further highlighted Thursday how California has become the flash point for the Israeli-Palestinian debate on American campuses, requesting that the confirmation of Avi Oved—a Jewish, pro-Israel student—to the Board of Regents be delayed until September.
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