I am cross-posting an article appearing today on Campus Watch via The Tower, which concerns the problem of anti-Semitic hate on college campuses and the track record of Students for Justice in Palestine in stirring it up.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/14160
As mentioned, Students for Justice in Palestine is the creation of UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, a character who came from the West Bank to get his education in the US, where he was a campus activist. He also "repaid" the US for his education by publicly calling for an intifada in the US. Lovely guy. Now, aside from his indoctrination duties at Berkeley, Bozo Bazian has also created another campus monster called the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Center. It's bad enough that people who say anything critical of Islam or certain Muslims have to worry about all the threats being made against their lives-to say nothing of those in Muslim-majority lands who are actually being murdered or put on trial for their lives, now they have to worry about their names being filed in this UC Berkeley "institution."
As for Bozo, he has appeared on the UCI campus many times, courtesy of the Muslim Students Union during their hate Israel fests every year. He has his off-the shelf power point presentation along with his dry and boring lecture on all the sins of Israel against the noble Palestinians. It's torture listening to him even if you agree with his point of view. Bozo is essentially a two-trick pony in that he either talks about Israel or Islamophobia.
As for the SJP chapter at UC Irvine, where I teach, they were established very conveniently a few years ago just after the Muslim Student Union was suspended for its planned disruption of the Israel ambassador to the US' speech in 2010 at UCI. They inaugurated their presence at UCI by hosting three characters from Jewish Voice for Peace, who argued that Israel supporters should not be able to feel comfortable on campus and that pro-Israel speech represented "useless discourse". Charming bunch.
I'm going to say it here and now. Free speech be damned; there is no room on campus for known troublemakers and purveyors of anti-Semitism. Universities should revoke their charters on campus and tell them to take their hate and agitation elsewhere.
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