It is with a painful heart that I report the continuing escalation of Judeophobia - antisemitism - at our American universities. It is nothing new, I’ve been watching it at California campuses for at least 15 years but, in each case, I told myself that it was an isolated incident. The rise of antisemitism coincides with the rise of the ideology embraced by the intersectional woke crowd.
The years have slipped by and I cannot recall which year this or that incident occurred. However, one year the students at UC Davis booed and forced a Jewish speaker off the stage and ran him off campus. He was an American psychologist who happened to be Jewish by birth, that is all. He was not involved in any politics whatsoever: they chased him off campus merely because he was Jewish.
Because I cannot recall the years - I did not take and keep notes - I will not create a list of my memories but this time we have the dates. It’s happening right now at the UC Berkeley campus. This is the school that claimed to fight for free speech in the 1960s and now they have become the absolute opposite.
Shame on schools like University of California at Berkeley. They are funded heavily by American tax dollars. All state and federal monies should be withheld ASAP.
Just a few short years ago they banned Ben Shapiro and Milo Yannopolis from speaking. Milo was run off campus - a gay man who dated black men - but he wasn’t up to snuff because he advocated for President Trump. He was run off the “free speech” campus for the “sin” of liking a U.S. president.
Later, Ben Shapiro was allowed on campus but on condition that he pay $60,000 for his own security. What was the “sin” that Ben committed that so inflamed the so-called arbiters of free speech? It’s simple: Shapiro is a conservative. Universities are supposed to educate our best and brightest yet the Prima-donnas at UC Berkeley cannot tolerate an opinion different from their own?
Why do we Americans put up with this??
By failing to act, the School of Law endorses discrimination and when it endorses discrimination, it cannot be entrusted to exercise it legal obligations to protect the civil rights of its minority students.
Jewish students, Israeli nationalists, and all people who support the right of the Jewish people to self-determination, have the absolute right to participate equally in campus activities and in educational pursuits without being targeted or harassed without discrimination. This is the essence of a civil right codified in federal law.
We call on Dean Chemerinsky to immediately sanction and disband all student groups that enacted discriminatory bylaws. We call on the School of Law to investigate, and act upon, the collusion among student groups as a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. We call on the School of Law to fully adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and to implement a training module for all students and faculty that educates on modern forms of antisemitism, including antisemitism that denies Jewish self-determination.
Just as UC Berkeley School of Law stripped the name of a racist from its buildings, it must now strip Jew-hatred from its student body and uphold the civil rights protections of the Jewish community.
~ the #EndJewHatred Movement