UCLA student government passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism
The undergraduate student government of UCLA unanimously passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.\n
The undergraduate student government of UCLA unanimously passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.\n
A foul odor is in the air. Lest we have any doubt about it, The New York Times has caught a whiff of it, reporting in its March 6 edition on the Rachel Beyda case at UCLA.
For several years now, a nasty anti-Israel group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has bludgeoned Israel’s image on college campuses.
On Tuesday, Feb. 24, conservative activist David Horowitz told the Jewish Journal in an interview that he and his organization, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, were responsible for posting on campuses nationwide posters inscribed with the words #JewHaters.
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Ivy League schools Columbia and Cornell were among the American college campuses with the “worst anti-Semitic activity” in 2014, according to a list prepared by a conservative think tank.
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.
At a Feb. 10 hearing of UCLA’s student government, four of nine representatives raised concerns that the Jewish background of Judicial Board candidate Rachel Beyda could present a conflict of interest and make her unfit to serve impartially as a judge in the student government’s judicial branch.
I have been troubled by recent incidents of bias on campuses across our nation. Sadly, UCLA is not immune to these occurrences.
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.