Anti-Semitism Week at the University of California-Irvine

Marathon Pundit ^ | May 15, 2006 | Marathon Pundit

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Well, they might as well call it Anti-Semitism week at the University of California-Irvine. Hat tip once again to Dr. Steven Plaut of the Autonomist Blog.

The University of California at Irvine, quickly morphemes into the Islamic Republic of Orange County, is holding an anti-Semitic Nuremberg-type rally this week. It is sponsored by the local Muslim Student Union and is entitled, "Holocaust in the Holy Land."

The event will be held at the University of California, Irvine, and hosts a lineup of Jew-hatred that is almost beyond belief.

"Holocaust in the Holy Land" features speeches with titles such as "Hamas: the People's Choice" and "Israel: The 4th Reich," and speakers including Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein as well as Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali.

All Jew-haters are welcome. Swastikas are optional.

And there is another conference Regular visitors to Marathon Pundit are aware that Norman Finkelstein is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University.

The Los Angeles Times (free registration may be required), from its May 12 edition, has more:

Controversial events scheduled at UC Irvine next week with such provocative titles as "Holocaust in the Holy Land" and "Israel: The Fourth Reich" are sparking outrage among Jewish students who are asking administrators to denounce aspects of the event.

Jewish students and community leaders say the program is the latest in a string of offensive incidents at the university. The U.S. Office for Civil Rights is investigating anti-Semitism at UCI, the first probe of its kind at a college.

"Instead of the university being a place for dialogue and discussion of important issues, it's being turned into a platform for hate speech and bigotry," said Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, a spiritual advisor at colleges in Long Beach and Orange County.

This week's conference at UC Irvine should not surprise people who follow the insanities within "higher" education.

Last month, the Collegiate Network awarded its annual "Polly Awards," given annually to colleges that allow campus outrages to flourish. Yale "won" this year's award. It's admission in a non-degree program to Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former deputy foreign secretary for the Taliban regime who has the Afghan equivalent of a fourth grade education allowed it to leap ahead of Norman Finkelstein's DePaul University.

In fourth place in this year's Polly Awards was the University of California system.

From the Collegiate Network site:

Fourth: Officials of the University of California System, representing 10 campuses with 200,000 students in the state, opposes diversity, at least, of the intellectual variety. The Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS Committee) of the UC Faculty Senate is refusing to award credit to high school students in Christian schools who take courses using textbooks published by A Beka Book and other conservative Christian presses. The California State University system, which is twice as large as UC, also follows UC admission guidelines. In effect, this small group of elites seeks to discriminate in the admissions process of nearly all California schools, proscribing a certain type of education it deems dangerous to the state

Christians bad, Jew-haters okay.

I was hoping things would improve in the Golden State once Arnold became governor, but sadly, California is getting worse.

Jewlicious and UC Intifada have more.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Poster promoting the event.

[downtownconservative]

Let's see, anti-semitic islamics participating in Anti-Semitism Week. That's kinda like the Stanford band playing at a Cal pep ralley. Or...the Gestapo drill team participating in the Lenin birthday celebration. Or...the Isreali's giving a suicide bomber a surprise roast.