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Last Sunday, more than 200 people gathered in Santa Barbara, Calif., for a “Walk to Remember” commemorating Holocaust victims and to address the importance of condemning antisemitism. Source: Courtesy of Santa Barbara Hillel.

February 8, 2023

“Israeli Apartheid Week” demonstration at UCLA, May 2010. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.

Dr. Dov Waxman, chair of UCLA Israel Studies, carelessly uses scholarship to enable the anti-Semitism that often proliferates in discourse on Israeli-Palestinian issues.

Justin Feldman

April 10, 2022

A sign outside of the University of California, Berkeley. Credit: EQRoy/Shutterstock.

University of California system considers mandatory ethnic-studies requirement

The proposal “will unleash hatred and bigotry, especially anti-Semitism, into California’s public, charter and private schools,” according to a petition signed by more than 2,000 people.

March 30, 2022

Leila Khaled. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Lawfare Project urges Zoom, UC Merced to cancel event featuring Palestinian terrorist

In letters to Zoom and UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz, the organization notes that the event featuring Leila Khaled could violate federal law by providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

Sean Savage

April 14, 2021

The University of California, Merced, March 21, 2013. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

UC Merced announces investigation over professor’s anti-Semitic tweets

Jewish groups hail the university’s “unambiguous condemnation of anti-Jewish bigotry.”

Aaron Bandler

December 31, 2020

UC Merced: Respond to professor Ghassemi’s Jew-hatred

It is long past time for “business as usual” with anti-Semitism, particularly on college campuses.

Micha Danzig

December 29, 2020

StandWithUs calls on UC Merced to discipline ‘anti-Semitic’ professor

Professor Abbas Ghassemi is accused of promulgating hatred of Jews and Israel in a series of since-deleted Twitter posts.

Aaron Bandler

December 29, 2020

UC Davis student government passes BDS resolution, vetoed next day

“Respect for the Palestinian community cannot come at the expense of respect for the Jewish community,” according to president of student union Kyle Krueger.

June 9, 2020

The law school at the University of California, Irvine. Credit: Mathieu Marquer from Paris via Wikimedia Commons.

Student government at UC Irvine repeals BDS resolution

“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.

April 20, 2020

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