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Ethnic Studies Council’s refusal to call Hamas attack terrorism is ‘repugnant’

UC regent Jay Sures: “The thought that young and impressionable students might be taught the falsehoods of your letter absolutely sickens me.”

November 1, 2023

Students at the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. in Aug. 2023. Photo by David Swindle.

On-campus sentiments about Israel range from antisemitism to apathy, students say

Several attendees of the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit in Washington this week shared their experiences as students.

August 11, 2023

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.

Proliferation of antisemitism draws Santa Barbara’s Jewish community closer together

UCSB student leader urges people to show up when Jews tell them “something is antisemitic, even if you don’t understand, or may disagree.”

February 8, 2023

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

A beckoning for UCLA Israel Studies

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.

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.

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

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

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.

December 29, 2020

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

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