MSU Hate Week is Back at UC Irvine

Mark your calendars Israel-haters. The circus is coming back to UC Irvine in the form of the annual anti-Israel hate week featured by the Muslim Student Union. For four whole days we can take our minds off the civil war in Syria, the persecution of Copts in Egypt, the persecution of Baha'i and gays in Iran-not to mention those nuclear weapons they are working on- the persecution of Christians and Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan and the suicide bombings and killing of Christians in Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. Did I mention the latest terrorist bombing in Boston? You won't hear a peep about all that. No, put all that aside because, as anybody on any college campus knows, the real problem is Israel.

I must say it is sort of a disappointing lineup this year. We will not have the pleasure of Amir Abdel Malik Ali telling us who all the Zionist Jews are. In fact, except for one speaker, I never heard of any of these folks. Suffice to say, we have a couple of peace activists,  one of whom is Israeli, a couple of professors, and a guy who thinks Hamas firing rockets into Israel is legitimate resistance.

On Monday at noon, there is no listed speaker. It is simply called, "The Struggle has no Borders".

Perhaps, they will bring in a couple of dancing bears.


(Dancing bears)

Here are the "distinguished" speakers:

Sahar Francis' life mission is getting the Israelis to free all those terrorist Palestinians locked up by the Israelis.

http://electronicintifada.net/tags/sahar-francis

Miko Peled is an Israeli and son of some general. He will be this year's showcase Jewish speaker.

http://thegeneralsson.com/

Osama Abdurshaid of American Muslims for Palestine is mentioned in this article by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which interestingly shows a connection between Students for Justice in Palestine and J Street, that supposedly pro-Israel organization (funded by George Soros).

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3313/sjp-dialogue-goes-nowhere

"During the same event, AMP board member Osama Abu Irshaid argued that launching rockets from Gaza into Israel cities should be legal. "So instead of blaming the victim, we should look at the criminal and the murderer. And instead of blaming the victim that even though if they're firing rockets, regardless, now this is according to the international law should be a legitimate resistance, because they are under occupation."

In his speech, Abu Irshaid referred to "the resistance," describing – but never naming – the terrorist organization Hamas."

Aayed Fatayerji is a recent UCI grad who at the time of the "Irvine 11" disruption of the Israeli ambassador's speech thought the disruptors should have been heard and given equal billing with the ambassador-or some such rot. 

http://www.newuniversity.org/2010/02/news/israel-interrupted-in-irvine/

“I wish the hecklers were given a better stage to speak,” fourth-year biological sciences major Aayah Fatayerji said. “I wish there was a stage for both perspectives to be shared equally with equal support from Admin.”

Fatayerji stated that it was the responsibility of the University to have unbiased sponsorship due to the event’s support by the Law and Political Science departments.

So she will be speaking in an "unbiased" forum.

Robin Kelley is a UCLA professor who in 2012, joined four other professors on a trip to the West Bank and East Jerusalem sponsored by the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and came back and reported  that he had never seen such a level of racist violence.

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/02/a-level-of-racist-violence-i-have-never-seen-ucla-professor-robin-d-g-kelley-on-palestine-and-the-bds-movement.html

I wonder if he was a witness to the Fogel massacre in Itamar.

Then we have Sohail Daulatzai, who has previously spoken at UCI.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2013/01/muslim-awareness-week-at-uc-irvine-2013_26.html

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173966/lets-not-normalize-thing-called-terrorism-conversation-sohail-daulatzai#

So that's it. I should mention that Daniel Pipes will be appearing at UCI on the evening of the 8th just down the hall from the MSU evening event. That should be interesting.