Please see the attached Letter outlining our concerns about the safety of Jewish students on UC campuses, which is being respectfully submitted to you by ourselves and the following organizations:
American Freedom Alliance
CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
The David Project
Israel Peace Initiative
Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism
UC Irvine officials have taken the rare step of recommending that a student organization be suspended for a year. A campus investigation into the Muslim Student Union’s alleged role in disrupting a Feb. 8 speech at UCI by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren concluded that the MSU not only planned, instigated and orchestrated the ruckus, but also lied to officials about its hand in that unpleasant and unnecessary turn of events. Continue reading →
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the second youngest campus in the California state university system. UCI has made its mark[1] among prestigious American universities, steadily rising in the U.S. News & World Report ratings of “America’s Best Colleges.” Following the al-Qaeda terror attacks on September 11, 2001, however, the prestigious and relatively subdued Orange County campus began drawing attention and earning a reputation as a breeding ground for anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic sentiment. Continue reading →
The proposed one-year suspension of the Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine for its involvement in the masterminding and orchestration of the sequence of shouted interruptions to a speech by the Israeli ambassador in February raises two important First Amendment issues. Continue reading →
Officials at UC Irvine made the right decision when they recommended suspending the UCI Muslim Student Union for one year for disrupting a campus speech by Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, in February. Continue reading →
The OCITF has recently received several emails containing a copy of the alleged MSU email purportedly detailing instructions for the disruption the Ambassador Oren event. We are re posting the April 7, 2010 report by Steve Emerson’s IPT which originally contained the purported MSU email or as the report terms it “game plan,” Continue reading →
Note: It is unfortunate the that the LA Times has chosen this editorial to disparage Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. Assemblyman DeVore visited the campus on several occasions and was an outspoken critic of the campus policy disallowing the recording of speakers at MSU events. Largely as a result of his efforts, the University has finally agreed to permit the taping of speakers thus allowing public access and public scrutiny to the ideas of hate speakers. See also: June 1, 2007 O C register Editorial
The Muslim Student Union should be suspended for disrupting a speech at UC Irvine by the Israeli ambassador. Its members need to learn that their freedom of speech does not trump that of other people. Continue reading →
At UC Irvine, Campus Rules and the First Amendment
“UC Irvine wants to ban a Muslim student group for orchestrating a plan to shout down the Israeli ambassador during a speech on the campus. Would a ban violate the students’ rights to free speech and association? What if they lied to university officials about their role in advance planning….?”
I don’t get surprised very often when I read the latest academic news. But today, I was. A university actually took a strong stand against the disruptive tactics of a student group bent on silencing campus speech. Continue reading →
University officials recommend the suspension after members disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador earlier this year, heightening a debate about free speech that has roiled the campus.
By Raja Abdulrahim, Christopher Goffard and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times Continue reading →
UC IRVINE MSU APPEALS RECOMMENDATION TO SUSPEND MSU
(Irvine, CA – 6/14/10) — The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of California, Irvine, announced today that it has filed an appeal to the recommendation by the Senior Executive Director of Student Housing to revoke the student group’s charter for one year, following allegations that the MSU violated sections of University policy. Continue reading →
LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Irvine, has suspended a Muslim student group for at least a year because of a protest that disrupted a talk by Israel’s ambassador and led to the arrests of 11 students.
The university on Monday released a letter from a student affairs disciplinary committee to Muslim Student Union leaders. It says the group was found guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities and other violations of campus policy.
The Muslim Student Union condemned Ambassador Michael Oren’s appearance in February. It has insisted it did not organize the protests, but the committee found it did engineer the protests and instructed participants to lie about its involvement.
Muslim Student Union spokesman Hadeer Soliman did not immediately respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press requesting comment.
The following was emailed to the OCITF this morning from Congressman Klein’s office
Dear friends,
Earlier this week, I invited several speakers to come to Capitol Hill to brief Congressional offices on reports of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel harassment against students on college campuses in the United States, an unacceptable and alarming problem that persists in various regions of the country. According to Jewish community officials, students at various universities around the country have reported repeated intimidation, harassment and even violent attacks on their college campuses by other students and non-students alike, causing emotional distress and prompting some students to go so far as to transfer schools. Continue reading →
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) condemns the University of California, Irvine for once again irresponsibly whitewashing the misconduct of the Muslim Student Union, a registered student group on campus – despite the University’s finding that the Muslim Student Union engaged in unauthorized fundraising on campus on May 21, 2009, and despite evidence that the funds may have been illegally provided to the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. The ZOA also criticizes UC Irvine for absolving university employees who attended the Muslim Student Union’s fundraising event, even though the employees knew or should have known that the fundraising was unauthorized and nevertheless did not stop or report it. Continue reading →
David Nesenoff films White House correspondent calling for Israelis ‘to get hell out of Palestine,’ which led to end of her 60-year career. Now, previously unknown rabbi has become target for thousands of pieces of hate mail, including death threats to him and his family
WASHINGTON – Despite condemnation from Washington over the senior White House reporter’s calls for Israelis “to get the hell out of Palestine and return to Germany and Poland,” other voices are now being heard following her resignation. Continue reading →
“…..the investigation found the fund raising occurred without (emphasis added) university permission The investigation was unable to determine whether the failure was reckless, negligent or intentional”
The OCITF expressed concern to University officials that during today’s anti-Israel rally, there was no police present except for an officer stationed in front of the administration building. The police officer remarked that “nothing will get done until somebody gets actually gets hurt”. It is unconscionable, given the level of overheated emotions, rhetoric and near violence that has already taken place worldwide that UCI Officials did not deem it necessary to provide an adequate police presence in what could have been a potentially volatile situation on campus.
Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism 
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