Who needs Students for Justice in Palestine on campus when you have Hillel bringing speakers like Peter Beinart to beat up on Israel?
http://mikereport.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-campus-war-on-israel-at-uw-hillel/#comment-2097
Hillel, a nation-wide Jewish organization is supposed to assist Jewish students in finding a comfortable environment on college campuses. Their chapters seem to operate in a rather autonomous manner. Currently, the organization is divided between the national leadership, which is pro-Israel, and many chapters who want to be "open-Hillel" chapters, that is open to all points of view on Israel. It seems to me that a Jewish student who is pro-Israel and wants to speak out against the acts of anti-Semitism that often occur on campus as a part of the on-going demonization of the Jewish state, ought to consider finding other sources of support and funding. Up there in Washington State you have a Hillel that brings in an anti-Israel speaker like Beinart while in Orange County, where I reside, Hillel has been unwilling to call out and confront anti-Semitism on the UC Irvine campus when it comes from pro-Palestinian supporters.
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