“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.