Iran threatens Israel

Iran: We’ll cut off Israel’s legs

Iran on Friday threatened to “cut off Israel’s feet” if the latter attacks Syria, AFP reported.

During a visit to Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said: “We will stand alongside Syria against any [Israeli] threat … If those who have violated Palestinian land want to try anything we will cut off their feet,” he said.

Anti-Israel demonstrators reportedly attacked car following Israeli Deputy Ambassador speach at University of Manchester (UK)

Attacking the deputy ambassador’s vehicle (Photo: Joe Sheffer)

Photo Courtesy Ynetnews

Haaretz:Israeli diplomat flees British anti-Israel demonstrators

By Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent

Talya Lador-Fresher, Israel’s deputy chief of mission at the Israeli embassy in London, had to be shuffled out a side door and into a “get-away” car by Manchester police on Wednesday, following a lecture she was gave at the University of Manchester that was crashed by pro-Palestinian student protestors.

UC San Diego, Berkeley anti-Israel divestment measures reportedly fail

Daily Cal Update: Divestment Battle Concludes With Failed Effort to Override Veto

(Note: The ASUC  (Berkeley) Senate did not finalize the 2010-11 budget at last night’s meeting, instead steering its full attention to determining the fate of a vetoed bill targeting companies involved in alleged Israeli war crimes. Read the Daily Cal story HERE)

Pennsylvania state senator introduced resolution condemning anti-Semitism on college campuses. Mentions U C Irvine and Columbia University

(Note:  SPME Board and PA Chapters Endorse and Urge Support for Pennsylvania Senate Resolution on Preventing Anti-Semitism on Campus)

Resolution Addresses Anti-Semitism on Campus

A  Pennsylvania state senator seeking to become the state’s next governor introduced a resolution last week condemning anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Email Response UC San Diego President: “I will be voting against the passage of this resolution. I urge my colleagues to do the same.”

Update: This letter was email was received by OCITF this afternoon from President Gupta:

To Whom It May Concern:

OCITF Letter to UC San Diego ASUCSD Senators:

The Orange County Independent Task force on Anti-Semitism strongly urges the ASUCSD Senate to vote against what is a clearly a biased, one sided and discriminatory resolution designed to single out the State of Israel and deny her the right to self defense.

Retiring Manuel Gomez on Oren disruption: “I need to restrain myself because I am the last appeal once the deliberations are completed at the Dean of Students level.”

Here is what  the “restrained “outgoing Vice Chancellor Gomez said in an interview in  this weeks New University

“Q: The Michael Oren incident seems to be a recent example of this. Could you comment on how the campus has chosen to deal with it?

More “Apartheid Wall” and half truths. “Palestine Solidarity” week at the University of Maryland.

Guest column: Rallying against hate

Daily Diamondback

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow leader of the Civil Rights Movement, wrote in a 2002 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, “During an appearance at Harvard University shortly before his death, a student stood up and asked King to address himself to the issue of Zionism. The question was clearly hostile. King responded, ‘When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews; you are talking anti-Semitism.’”

UCSD Israel Divestment Update:Daily Guardian

Note: Vote to take place Wednesday, April 27 at 6:00 PM

A.S. Resolution Draws Criticism From Pro-Israel Groups

By Angela Chen

Proponents say the measure is meant to condemn human-rights violations worldwide.

An A.S. resolution demanding that the university stop working with companies associated with human-rights violations has come under fire from members of the pro-Israel campus community.

ASUC San Diego one sided resolution seeks divestment from and refers to Israel as “the occupying force”

Resolution in Support of Peace and Neutrality through UC Divestment from U.S. Corporations Profiting from Occupation

A.S. Council Order of Business #30

Vote to take place Wednesday, April 28, 201o

NSA advisor tells anti-Semitic Joke?

National Security Adviser Apologizes for Joke About Jewish Merchant

National Security Adviser James Jones apologized Monday for telling a joke last week that depicted a member of the Taliban getting tricked by a Jewish merchant looking to make a sale.

Berkeley Update: No Consensus reached on divestment bill. Bill was not added to the agenda for next week’s senate meeting.

ASUC Senate Fails to Reach Consensus on Divestment Bill
By Allie Bidwell | Friday, Apr 23, 2010 | 

Following more than two hours of deliberation in closed session, the ASUC Senate failed Wednesday night to come to a consensus on whether to override President Will Smelko’s March 24 veto of a bill targeting alleged…Read More»

Director of Chabad Youth Organization in Kiev: ‘I fear for childrens lives’

‘Happy Holocaust’ sprayed on Jewish school in Kiev

Security forces in Ukraine presume anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on wall of Jewish school in honor of Hitler’s birthday. Director of Chabad Youth Organization says, ‘I fear for childrens lives’
Aviel Magnezi 

Published:

04.22.10, 08:15 / Israel News

A Star of David hanging on gallows, and the words “happy Holocaust,” “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Israel,” swastikas and a range of cruses against the Jewish people and the State of Israel were sprayed on a Jewish public school in Kiev on the eve of Independence Day.

It seems as though the perpetrators carried out their crime in a bid to mark the birthday of Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.

According to assessments made by local security forces, neo-Nazi group activists are responsible for the vandalism carried out on the night between Monday and Tuesday. The said school is a Jewish state school in Kiev that is run by the Chabad Youth Organization.

The wall of the Jewish school in Kiev. Swastikas and SS emblem

SPME: Letters from six Nobel Laureates and Eli Wiesel counter one sided Berkeley resolution

Source:  Scholars for Peace in the Middle East press release

The full texts of the Nobel Laureates letters are as follows:

Dear Members of the University of California- Berkeley Student Senate:

“Death to Jews” and “death to Israel” spray painted on the walls of Chabad school in Kiev

School vandalism, flag burnings strike Kiev

April 21, 2010

JTA) — A Jewish school in Kiev was vandalized, apparently by members of a local neo-Nazi group.

“The silence is deafening”

Will the UC Irvine Muslim Student Union ever defend itself?

LA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner Paul Kujawsky   April 16,

It’s been more than a week since the Investigative Project on Terrorism revealed emails that, if authentic, show that the UC Irvine branch of the Muslim Student Union coordinated the disruption of the February campus speech of Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren. The emails also show that the MSU coordinated the subsequent cover-up, in which both the MSU and the arrested demonstrators denied any MSU involvement in the planning or execution of the demonstration. (See “More evidence that UC Irvine MSU lied about not planning disruption of Israeli Ambassador’s talk.“)

Christian Group seeks to combat Anti-Semitism at UCI

Combating campus anti-Semitism

Bill Bumpas – OneNewsNow – 4/16/2010

In response to the growth of anti-Semitism on college campuses across the U.S., one organization is looking to music to create awareness for support of Israel.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, tells OneNewsNow that “Israel Apartheid” demonstrations popping up around college grounds originated at the University of California-Irvine.

“The campus unfortunately has a growing number of anti-Israel students [who] have leveraged these Israel Apartheid demonstrations on the campus of UC-Irvine,” she explains, “and more and more campuses are starting to participate in similar events.”

B’nai B’rith Canada: The “Spillover Effect” of anti-Israel Hatefests.

Machete attack called ‘spillover effect of anti-Israel hatefests’

Written by Atara Beck

Jewish Tribune

TORONTO-OTTAWA – “We have been warning about the spill-over effect of anti-Israel hate-fests such as Israeli Apartheid Week for years,” declared Frank Dimant, CEO, B’nai Brith Canada, in reaction to the recent alleged attack against a Carleton University student with a machete in Gatineau.

Berkeley Update: Divestment motion to be reconsidered next week. Berkeley Hillel director: Overriding the veto “…will definitely cause a decrease in the number of Jewish students willing to attend Cal”

(No Olive Trees at Cal?)

ASUC Senate Still Undecided on Vetoed Divestment Bill

“By Allie Bidwell and Nick Myers | Thursday, Apr 15, 2010

Following a nearly nine-hour discussion that began at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday evening and lasted into Thursday morning, ASUC senators have yet to reach a decision on whether or not they would uphold or override President Will Smelko’s March 24 veto of a controversial bill urging the student government and the UC to divest from two companies that have supplied Israel with materials for alleged war crimes.

UC Berkeley: President Smelko’s veto of anti-Israel bill sustained. Motion to reconsider passes.

U.C. Berkeley student senate votes to sustain veto of divest-from-Israel resolution

by amanda pazornik

Jweekly

The fate of a divest-from-Israel resolution passed last month by the U.C. Berkeley student senate and vetoed a week later by the ASUC president was decided April 15, with a 12-7 vote to sustain the veto, according to the Twitter feed from the Daily Californian, U.C. Berkeley’s student-run campus newspaper.

Britain, reverses refusal to grant visas to 20-30 persecuted Jewish families

Britain is nearing an agreement to take in persecuted Jews from Yemen who have relatives in the country.

LONDON (JTA) — Britain is nearing an agreement to take in persecuted Jews from Yemen who have relatives in the country.

“Welcome to Jewish life at UCI.”

Is UC Irvine safe for Jews? When worlds collide. by Lisa Armony, Contributing Writer http://www.jewishjournal.com/ cover_story/article/is_uc_irvine_safe_for_jews_20100413/

A protester is removed before Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, attempted to give a speech on campus. Photo by Peter Halmagyi Jewish students could hardly contain their excitement as they gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Hillel center at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), in February. Calling it a “symbol for Jewish students,” Jordan Fruchtman, Hillel Foundation of Orange County executive director, described the 1,400-square-foot facility across the street from campus as “a place where students feel good and create memories that build a strong Jewish identity.” Three days later, the students were back at Hillel, their giddiness turned to shell shock. They had just witnessed Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, attempting to give a speech on campus, on Feb. 8, only to be relentlessly heckled and jeered by a crowd of anti-Israel protesters, many of them fellow classmates. Eleven protesting students were arrested, eight from UCI, and disciplinary investigations are still under way, although recently disclosed e-mails suggest that the protests were an orchestrated effort by a militant Muslim group on campus. Welcome to Jewish life at UCI.

UC Berkeley Alumnus: “I will never feel the same way about “my” university again.”

Alumnus Now Has a Changed Perception of UC Berkeley

By Linda Press Wulf

Special to the Daily Cal

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I was at the senate meeting on the night of March 17 but had to leave around 1 a.m. to take my son home because he has AP exams at his high school this week.

I must be na�ve, as I left believing by far the majority of you had seen that the Israeli-Palestinian issue was far too complex for you ASUC senators to pass a resolution recommending divestment from one side.

UC Berkeley Student: Israel Divestment Bill “a travesty of justice and an enemy of a positive campus climate.”

( Note: ASUC vote to take place Weds. April 14 at 7:00 PM)

Regents Should Not Support the Divestment Bill

By Brian Maissy
Special to the Daily Cal
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Editor’s Note: This piece was written as a letter to the UC Board of Regents.

As you are probably aware, bill 118, passed by the ASUC senate, vetoed by the ASUC president, and currently before the senate again for the veto to be overturned, calls upon you, the UC Regents, to divest UC funds from General Electric and United Technologies, which conduct business in Israel, including selling defense technology to the IDF.

Iran: Nukes and Anti-Semitism

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
13/04/2010

Europe ignores Iran’s deadly mix of anti-Semitism and nukes

Jerusalem Post

Europeans frequently view Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel as a way to make use of the annihilation of European Jewry as a catharsis to alleviate their guilt-ridden history.

BERLIN – Where do Iran’s quest to speed up the production of uranium centrifuges for its alleged nuclear weapons program and global anti-Semitism cross paths? Both processes are proliferating at an astonishingly fast pace, and are not being met by fierce resistance. Just days before Israelis observed Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Islamic Republic marked its National Nuclear Day last Friday, proclaiming its accelerated drive to go nuclear.

Italian Bishop quoted as saying: Jews use the Holocaust “like a club”. Current Criticism of Catholic Church “Zionist attack”

Jewish Chronicle (UK)

Bishop ‘blames Jews’ for Catholic criticism

By Jessica Elgot

Created 12 Apr 2010

An Italian website, which quoted an Italian bishop as saying Jews were behind the criticism of the Catholic Church over sex abuse claims, has upheld the quotes.

Yom Ha’Shoah.

In memory of the Six Million…..

Violent attacks against Jews worldwide doubled

Report: Anti-Semitic incidents doubled last year

By GRANT SLATER (AP)

JERUSALEM —  more than doubled last year, fueled by a Muslim backlash in Europe in the aftermath of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, according to a report released Sunday.

ZOA Letter to UCI: “The University’s continuing failure and refusal to enforce its own rules…”

The attached letter, copied to the OCITF and dated April 9, 2010  to UCI’s Chief Campus Counsel Diane Fields Giocaris was received today.  To read the letter click  here

UC Berkeley Update. ASUC Attorney General: Divestment resolution “might be in violation of the ASUC constitution. Student senate meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14

Jewish Weekly

Divestment debate to continue

by April 8, 2010 | by Amanda Pazornic

The fate of a divest-from-Israel resolution passed by the U.C. Berkeley student senate and vetoed by ASUC’s president a week later will likely be decided at a student senate meeting Wednesday, April 14.

UC Riverside: ASUCR resolution in support of Irvine 11 hecklers fails.

ASUCR Update

Lillian Nguyen

UC Riverside Highlander

Issue date: 4/6/10 Section: News

At Wednesday’s senate meeting, senators voted on two resolutions, including the controversial Freedom of Speech resolution.

The Freedom of Speech resolution concerns the group of students now known as the Irvine 11. The people in this group, three of whom are students from UC Riverside, were arrested on Feb. 8 after they continually shouted over the speech being made by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

SF Chronicle Op Ed: Northern California Regional Director of the ADL denounces vandalism, anti-Semitic hatred at UC Davis

(Courtesy OCITF Northern CA member Anne Storm)

Everyone must condemn hatred

Jonathan Bernstein

From SFGate.com

Thursday, April 8, 2010

UC Davis is reeling from several anti-Jewish incidents. In late February, a Jewish student discovered a swastika carved into the door of her residence hall room. The following week, four more of the Nazi symbols were painted on several locations around the campus. On March 14, another swastika was discovered on a bulletin board in one of the campus dorms.

After many years of student complaints, OC Jewish Federation finally “demands action” at UCI. Federation CEO alleges “cover-up”?

(Meanwhile UCI’s “Internal investigation” into alleged  MSU/Viva Palestina /Hamas fundraiser enters 7th month)

Jewish Federation Orange County Demands UCI Action

New evidence allegedly shows that the University of California, Irvine Muslim Student Union orchestrated the repeated disruptions of a speech given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren earlier this year.

According to IPT Report: MSU’s decision to disrupt the Oren event “had been made at an MSU board meeting days before the speech”

The MSU Plot to Silence Israel’s Ambassador

Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/

(to read the alleged email click here)

IPT News April 7, 2010

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1892/the-msu-plot-to-silence-israels-ambassador

Despite claims to the contrary, internal emails from the University of California, Irvine’s Muslim Student Union (MSU) show that the group orchestrated the repeated disruptions of a speech given on campus by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren February 8.

World Jewish Congress: Jews demonstrate in Budapest against rising anti-Semitism

Hungarian Jews demonstrate against rising anti-Semitism and extremism

More than 1,000 Jews marched through central Budapest in protest against a series of anti-Semitic incidents and the worsening political climate in the run-up to parliamentary elections next week. read more »

More hatred in Ottawa. Carleton University graffitti: “Kill a Jew slow + painfully…”

Hate crimes unit probes anti-Semitic graffiti on campus

By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen April 7, 2010 12:02 AM

OTTAWA — The Ottawa police hate crimes unit is investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a campus washroom at Carleton University.

Ottawa Canada: Machete allegedly used in anti-Semitic attack in Gatineau, Carleton students say

Students say machete-wielding mob attacked them

Canwest News Service

April 6, 2010

A student supporter of Israel at Ottawa’s Carleton University and his Israeli engineering student roommate say they were attacked by a group of people, including one person swinging a machete, near a Gatineau, Que., bar early Monday.

Priest compares Catholic Churches sex abuse crisis to “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.” North American Jewish leaders furious

US Jewish leaders denounce Catholic sermon

By ERIC GORSKI (AP) – 3 hours ago

American Jewish leaders on Friday denounced a Vatican official’s likening of anti-Catholicism during the church’s escalating abuse crisis to “collective violence” against Jews, but predicted it would not deal a severe blow to the two faiths’ often-strained relationship.

Former York University student allegedly called for a genocide “against the Jewish populations of North America and Europe.”

Student under hate-crime probe no longer at York

Stewart Bell, National Post Published: Thursday, April 01, 2010

‘Amazing it took so long to come to this realization’

York University said yesterday it had taken action against a student under police investigation for allegedly writing on a website that Jews should be killed.

UC Berkeley: Possible senate vote to override veto will likely not take place until on or after April 14. Some Senators may not vote to override veto

Debate Over Israel Divestment Bill Continues

By Zach E.J. Williams

Daily Californian Staff Writer

In the wake of a presidential veto, the debate within the ASUC student government on whether to urge divestment from two companies contracting with the Israeli military is far from over.