UC Irvine chancellor: Anti-Israel protesters ‘crossed the line of civility’

(JTA) — Anti-Israel student protesters disrupted the screening of a film about the Israel Defense Forces at the University of California, Irvine.

Jewish students attending the screening of the Israeli documentary “Beneath the Helmet” Wednesday night, under the auspices of the campus Hillel, had to be escorted away from the scene by campus police, the Orange County Register reported.

Anti-Israel protesters have disrupted numerous pro-Israel events and Israeli speakers at campuses and other venues around the world in the past year. For example, protesters at London’s Kings College in January smashed a window during a speech by former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon; protesters at San Francisco State University shouted down Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat during a speech there in April, and protesters at the University of Minnesota in November shouted down Hebrew University Professor Moshe Halbertal during a speech there.

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Anti-Semitism: The only hate allowed in campus ‘safe spaces’

By Lawrence Summers, Opinion for the New York Post

It has seemed to me that a vast double standard regarding what constitutes prejudice exists on American college campuses. There is hypersensitivity to prejudice against most minority groups but what might be called hyper-insensitivity to anti-Semitism.

At Bowdoin College, holding parties with sombreros and tequila is deemed to be an act of prejudice against Mexicans. At Emory, the chalking of an endorsement of the likely Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on a sidewalk is deemed to require a review of security tapes.

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Why is “Sisterhood” Still Relevant on Today’s College Campuses?

by Liat Greenwald for Jeducation World

This past weekend, I was involved in an incredibly exhilarating and spiritually uplifting event: Nashir, the intercollegiate Jewish women’s arts festival. Each year, Nashir consists of a Shabbat experience, followed by a visual arts gallery and performance on Saturday night; this year Nashir took place at the University of Pennsylvania.

When my friends first discovered that I was involved in Nashir, I fielded a lot of questions (from both men and women) about two themes in particular: Why are women-only spaces important? And, in an age of burgeoning egalitarianism, is the idea of sisterhood still relevant?

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The AMCHA Initiative

The AMCHA Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating, documenting, educating about, and combating antisemitism at institutions of higher education in America.

Recent Antisemitic Activity

April 26, 2016 – WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
SJP publishes an article in the student newspaper that falsely accuses Israel of colonization and ethnic cleansing.
(ANTISEMITIC EXPRESSION: DELEGITIMIZATION; DEMONIZATION)

 April 25, 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
Flyers advertising a Tuesday night event titled “Leftist Diversity: Excluding all Ideas except their own” were defaced. One flyer was vandalized with the Wolfsangel, a symbol connected to the Nazi party.
(TARGETING JEWISH STUDENTS & STAFF: GENOCIDAL EXPRESSION; HISTORICAL)

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The New Leader of the UK’s Student Union is an Anti-Semitic Apologist for Terror

Malia Bouattia is symbolic of the poison of the regressive Left

By Maajid Nawaz for The Jc.com

The words below are not mine. But because of their gravity, it is important that you read them in full.
“The notion of resistance has been perhaps washed out of our understanding of how colonised people will obtain their physical emancipation...With mainstream, Zionist-led media outlets …resistance is presented as an act of terrorism.
“But instead of us remembering that this has always been the case throughout struggles against white supremacy, it’s become an accepted discourse among too many...

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