"One person's hate speech is another person's education."
At UC Irvine, there is ostensibly a Jewish Studies program, which leads to a minor degree. Its head is Julia R. Lupton. Students may take an approved list of classes from specified faculty. Among the listed faculty (21) are two noted anti-Israel activists, Mark LeVine and David Theo Goldberg.
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/jewishstudies/people
Here's a fun fact that may or may not surprise you. Back in May 2010, a group of Jewish faculty members at UCI organized a letter expressing concern about anti-Semitism on the UCI campus that was stirred up by the annual May hate-Israel week of events. This is the letter I tried (unsuccessfully) to get the great "independent scholar with a PhD from Princeton", Norman Finkelstein, to sign when he came to speak. Here is my first question: How many members of the UCI Jewish studies faculty do you think signed the letter?
Answer: Three (Jacobo Sefami, Sara Goodman and Seymour Menton)
http://octaskforce.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/some-community-members-students-and-faculty-indeed-feel-intimidated-and-at-times-even-unsafe/
In fact, I myself scraped up more signatures aside from myself (4), and I'm not even Jewish.
Question two: Subsequent to the indictment of the so-called Irvine 11 (who disrupted the speech of the Israeli ambassador in 2010), a group of UCI Jewish Studies professors signed one or more letters urging the District Attorney of Orange County to dismiss charges. How many of the same UCI Jewish Studies faculty do you think signed those letters?
Answer: Ten
http://www.zimbio.com/Jerry+Brown/articles/5vu6dc7eU5N/Copy+UCI+Faculty+Letter+DA+Drop+Charges+Against
Why would a Jewish student want to attend UCI and take classes from these clowns posing as academics? Having to sit through classes with these pseudo- scholars, knowing that they have bias. The power of the "grade" would help silence the students dialogue (the socratic method) when challenging the professors. Shame on those who put pen to paper to drop the case against the Irvine 11, who violated First Amendment rights, especially the Dean of the UCI Law School.
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