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By Matt Coker, Friday, May. 8 2009 @ 7:47AM
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Categories: Gimme That OC Religion, School Daze 2


As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide."

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Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine; Cynthia McKinney, the former Georgia congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential nominee who is part of the Free Gaza Movement; Anna Baltzer, the Jewish American graduate of Columbia University who went to Israel and had her eyes opened about the oppression against Palestinians there; Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a black Imam from Oakland frequently condemned by Jews for allegedly engaging in hate speech; and Gideon Levy, the Israeli Ha'aretz journalist and former Shimon Peres spokesman who has accused his nation of "moral blindness" for its acts of war and occupations of Gaza and the West Bank.

Co-sponsors include Afrikan Student Union, the Armenian fraternity Alpha Epsilon Omega, Armenian Student Association, Asian Pacific Student Association, Hindu Student Council, Hip Hop Congress, Pakistani Student Association, Society of Arab Students, Sikh Student Association, The Agora, Radical Student Union, Vietnamese Action Committee, Young Americans for Liberty and Workers Student Alliance.

Needless to say, campus watchers of the Jewish persuasion are not exactly thrilled.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, who has been a rabbi at UCI for five years, titled his Jewilicious post "The Intifada Continues at UC Irvine." "The USA campus with an active Jihad / Intifada against Israel, Jews, Western-style democracy continues," he writes below his link to the MSU "teaser-trailer." "There are some similarities to the style of the Jihad Films on YouTube that promote terror and violence. What was just one week is now over two weeks long."

The gathering has even caught the eye of FresnoZionism.org, which blogs that since the MSU "explicitly supports Hamas" and Hamas is fervently devoted to the destruction of the Jewish state, then MSU wants Israel wiped off the map as well. "The event is called 'Israel: the Politics of Genocide,' which is actually quite accurate if you think about the goals of the terror organizations supported by the MSU."

Yonah, who complains that Irvine's Jewish community and Orange County Jewish Federation located in that city "seem unwilling to do much to stop" the MSU, accused the university and Chancellor Michael Drake "in particular" with enabling what he labeled a hate event. "This groups [sic] needs to be banned from campus. That will do a lot to stop the Intifidah at UCI."

Condemn Anti-Semitism at UC Irvine is circulating a petition that predicts "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" will "demonize Israel and make false and hateful accusations against Israel and Jews." The petition calls on Drake to condemn the event and MSU.

But a blogger named Dajjal who claimed to be sympathetic to those feelings found the anti-MSU tactics misguided in a post titled "Political Correctness: Double-Edged Sword": "I believe that universities should be bastions of free speech and open debate, where all viewpoints can be aired, supported and opposed without fear or favor," Dajjal writes. "Neither censorship, intimidation nor physical assault should be allowed on campus."

Noting that the Terrorism Awareness Project sponsors an annual "Islamo-Fascism  Awareness Week," Dajjal adds, "When deceptive propaganda is promulgated, it should be identified as such and refuted with relevant, verifiable facts.  If bigots are invited to spew hatred on campus, their visits should be proceeded by exposure of their curriculum vitae including previous false or hateful expressions. Let debate be open, vitae and voluminous."    
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Comments (8)

J B says:

Keeping spreading the truth UCI. You have worldwide support for your amazing work!

Posted On: Friday, May. 8 2009 @ 5:35PM
George says:

Let the Zionist say what they want. Tell them to bring everything they got. The truth will always prevail.

Posted On: Friday, May. 8 2009 @ 5:48PM
Mud says:

mashAllah UCI is the ground zero for some serious activity. Presenting the topics no corporate media outlet would dare to cover, for fear of waking the sleeping brothers and sisters (muslim and non). Speaking truth to the establishment.

Alhamdulilah

Posted On: Friday, May. 8 2009 @ 5:49PM
Don Scott says:

UCI is a cesspool of Muslim bigots.

Posted On: Sunday, May. 10 2009 @ 4:28PM
So Cal Mike says:

It's amazing how those seeking to commit genocide accuse the victims of their own Jaw-hating desires!
Classic Projection.
And I actually grew up and even spent most of my adult life sympathizing with and for these Jew-hating animals.
They don't deserve to live here. Their goal is simple.
They are trying to finish what Hitler started for the precise same reasons if such perverted hatred can even be called a reason.
Not much has really changed since the Holocaust. It's almost comical watching those who deny the first as they plot the second.
Welcome to UCI.

Posted On: Monday, May. 11 2009 @ 9:52PM
Brandi says:

Why is Palestine not mentioned in the Quran while Israel is? Because it didn't exist then and only came into being during the Islamic Ottoman Empire.

Israel should be respected and not hated.

The behavior shown here by UCI students is shameful and reflects poor parenting. The level of hate and anger in their heart needs mending. I will pay for them to be freed from this pain.

Posted On: Tuesday, May. 12 2009 @ 5:50AM
Satan is a Jew says:

Using Brandi's wacky logic, since the Vatican is never once mentioned in the Bible, it is not a holy city for Christians/Catholics.

Keep sipping the Jewish Kool-Aid goy.

Posted On: Saturday, May. 16 2009 @ 5:42PM
The One AND Only says:

Stop labeling people!! ALL Jews and ALL Muslims don't think the same way! There are going to be radicals in EVERY religous denomination! Both Israel and Hamas are guilty of killing innocent people, who are you to say whether their worng or right??

Since bombing people obviously doesn't work, why not try PEACE?

Posted On: Sunday, May. 17 2009 @ 10:36AM

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