Campus Antisemitism
The appointment of Ilana Feldman came under fire from members of the pro-Israel community, including the student group GW for Israel.
Ilana Feldman has a record of delegitimizing the Jewish state as an activist in the anti-Israel BDS movement with some of her academic work glossing over Palestinian terrorism.
“Many of us planned our spring-break trips around college tours that had to be canceled due to the coronavirus, so this will make up for lost opportunities,” said Ian Hammer, a high school junior from Kansas City.
“Why on earth would campus administrators see fit to award this group after it has failed time and again to advance the core values of the university: dialogue, open inquiry and civil discourse on contentious issues?” asked Academic Engagement Network executive director Miriam Elman.
The vote has been pushed to the fall semester “or whenever campus returns to its normal operation,” said CEC and CCSC.
“This cowardly act of hatred towards the Jewish community amidst a time of global crisis and on Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, is reprehensible,” posted UMass Amherst Hillel on Facebook.
“A sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation has been waged against Jewish students and their allies on UCI’s campus with impunity,” read a March 12 resolution.
“This latest incident fits a pattern of offensive and inflammatory social-media posts that do nothing to advance peace and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, but rather fuels more hate and divisiveness,” said Evan Bernstein, vice president of the ADL’s northeast division.
Duke Health and Durham County said they were working to test others who traveled with the group.
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They signed an open letter organized by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) to applaud Lee Bollinger’s “forceful and unequivocal declaration against bigotry and prejudice, which are intolerable, as he said, when directed against any group, especially within a university.”
The vote occurred just months after students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum calling on the school to separate itself from companies that conduct business with the State of Israel.
