Posted on 07/18/2016 8:05:44 AM PDT by Pelham
On the night of May 18, a group of about 10 Jewish students gathered at UC Irvine to watch “Beneath the Helmet,” a film about young Israeli soldiers.
Outside, another group of students, as many as 50 by some estimates, gathered to protest the screening, saying the movie glorifies the Israeli army, which the protesters view as occupiers. Shouting, “Long live the intifada!” and slogans against Israeli settlers in the West Bank, the protest eventually brought a response from UCI police.
Two months later, the confrontation continues to draw attention from people around the world who believe long-running tensions at UC Irvine mirror – so far, in a nonviolent fashion – the Middle East.
How it plays out could say a lot about the state of religious tolerance and free speech at UCI and other schools in California.
On movie night, the Jewish students said they felt intimidated and physically trapped by the protesters. They eventually were escorted to their cars by police.
The protesters counter by saying they only expressed opinions and didn’t harass anyone.
Last week, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said it found no indication of criminal wrongdoing that night, ending a review launched at the request of UCI police.
Meanwhile, the school’s separate investigation into whether the confrontation violated UCI policy or a recent University of California statement against anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance remains open.
Though both sides remain frustrated, the incident is the latest in a string of confrontations that has led some to view UCI as a place that’s unwelcoming to Jewish students, and others to view it as a place where Islamophobia is tolerated....
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Every Muslim Student Association on every American college campus is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
They are nothing but terrorist cells.
The Jewish students should have claimed “mircoaggression” and then the administration would have understood their concerns. Wait, only leftists can feel threatened. How could I have forgotten that???
This is the kind of Krap we get importing anti- American Islamonazis into our country. Defeat Hillary! She’s already taken a reported 200 million $$! From them
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