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Another warning about the growing influence of Islam in the United States…this time Jewish students face the threat of violence on American University campuses.

As militant, anti-semitic, anti-Israel Moslem organizations gain strength on U.S. campuses, their ongoing incitement to violence against Jewish students becomes more and more dangerous for the Jews studying there.

What will it take for a wake-up call?

When will common-sense prevail over the need for “PC-political correctness” and so-called “religious tolerance” towards the “religion of peace”, which has, time after time, proven to be NOT!

If I were a Jew in America, I might read the handwriting on the wall…By the way, it’s really nice for Jews in Israel these days…

UCLA Campus..Dangerous for Jewish Students?

Caution: Growing Threat to Jews on California Campuses

Two University of California professors warn that Jewish students face greater dangers as Muslim extremist organizations grow in campus influence.

Reprinted from Israelnationalnews.com Hillel Fendel

In an article on AmericanThinker.com, Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin – Professor Emeritus at the UCLA and Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, respectively – write of the growth of Al-Awda, the presence of the Muslim Students Association or Muslim Student Union in nearly 600 North American colleges and universities, the activities of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and more.

“Many of the activities of these groups specifically harass and intimidate Jewish students,” they write, and “it is not inconceivable that these groups’ anti-Semitic discourse and hostility could escalate into incidents of physical violence. Nevertheless, California administrators have been unwilling to respond to, or even acknowledge, the threats that Jewish students face on their campuses.”

Al-Awda, for instance, is an organization that opposes Israel’s right to exist, supports foreign terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hizbullah, organizes strongly anti-Israel rallies and events, and often features virulently anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic speakers and films at its events.

“Al-Awda has also made significant inroads on college and university campuses in North America,” the professors write, “by partnering with dozens of Muslim and pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel student groups. The first four of Al-Awda’s seven annual international conventions were held on university campuses (University of Toronto, Hunter College, UCLA, and San Francisco State University),” and its conventions and regional conferences are invariably sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA).

In California alone, SJP and MSA groups from more than ten California public colleges and universities have collaborated with Al Awda in hosting events.

Speaker Boasts at Success in Silencing Israeli
A sample Al-Awda event was reported on by undercover reporter Lee Kaplan this past February. One speaker, Dr. Jess Ghannam, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at UC San Francisco and Adjunct Professor of Ethnic Studies at SFSU, gloated at the successful disruption of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech at UC Irvine MSU. “Now, every single Israeli military official and politician will be afraid to speak publicly,” Ghannam said. “It’s huge!”

The MSA, founded by the extremist Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, has had speakers on college campuses who justify suicide bombers and jihad and/or have acted in support of Hamas. Both the MSA and the SJP have repeatedly promoted anti-Israel events that at times become openly anti-Semitic and voice support for suicide bombers. At UC Irvine, for example, the professors write, “the MSA has been involved in acts of physical aggression, harassment, and intimidation of Jewish students; has produced posters equating the Star of David with the swastika; and hosts speakers who compare Jews to Nazis and praise terrorism.”

Chancellors Condemn – But Only in Principle
The response of university officials has been weak, to say the least. For example, Beckwith and Rossman-Benjamin write that “all ten University of California Chancellors recently signed a statement condemning ‘all acts of racism, intolerance and incivility’ … Nevertheless, not one UC Chancellor has condemned the MSA/MSU or SJP groups on his or her campus for the hateful, anti-Semitic programs they mount, or the hostile and intimidating environment they create for Jewish students.”

At a special three-hour UC Regents meeting last month devoted to addressing recent acts of intolerance and bigotry on UC campuses, the discussion focused almost entirely on African-American students and other under-represented minorities. The “longstanding and intolerable harassment and intimidation of Jewish students by members of the Muslim and pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel student groups were not mentioned even once,” the professors write.

In addition, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education has refused to afford Jewish students the same protections against harassment and intimidation as it grants to every African-American, Latino, and Arab student. This policy is an above-board feature of Obama administration policy, said Kenneth Marcus, former director of the OCR, who quoted Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali as indicating that the Obama administration would not pursue cases of harassment against Jewish students.

Raising the Alarm
“The MSA/MSU and SJP chapters on many California campuses are unlike other official student groups,” the two professors conclude. “Their affiliations with organizations that support terror and seek to wage Islamic jihad make them a threat to every member of the campus community, but especially to Jewish students. The refusal of university and government officials to afford protections to Jewish students on California campuses is absolutely unconscionable and should be protested loudly and clearly by parents, donors, and taxpayers across the state and across the nation.”

Hard to believe that such a tiny little country can demand SO much attention around the world. And don’t give me that “Jewish conspiracy-the Jews are running the world” nonsense, either. The world was set up by the Creator with Israel at it’s physical and spiritual center. THAT is the concept of the “chosen-ness” of the Jews. Apparently, G-d’s Chosen people DO have an effect on everything that happens in the world, even the California Senate race.
And it’s not about some Jewish plot…If anyone is doing the plotting, it’s the Big-Guy up in Heaven…

California GOP U.S. Senate race focusing on Israel?


California is broke, its 12.1 percent unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation, housing prices have plunged, home foreclosures have skyrocketed and a drought is threatening the state’s dwindling water supply. There also are plenty of other issues for would-be U.S. senators to debate, including the battered economy and a massive effort to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

Instead, the state’s Republican Senate primary has been heating up over Israel.

Reprinted from Miami Herald By ROB HOTAKAINEN
McClatchy Newspapers

With former Rep. Tom Campbell leading in the polls, his challengers for the Republican nomination – businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore – are taking persistent shots at the front-runner, saying that his record consistently has been anti-Israel.

As a result, Campbell will have to play defense Friday when California’s Republican Senate candidates meet in their first debate.

On Monday, Fiorina, the former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, asked Campbell to explain why he’d voted against aid to Israel when he was in Congress, why he opposed recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, and why he accepted contributions from groups that have been linked to Islamic extremists.

The Campbell camp said that the former congressman had a pro-Israel record and would wait until the debate, which will be hosted by a Sacramento radio station, to respond to Fiorina’s specific charges. Campbell pushed for Friday’s debate as a way to air the charges against him fully.

Fiorina will face some hard questioning, too, however. DeVore plans to ask about her years as the head of Hewlett-Packard, when, he charges, the company made millions by selling printers and other goods to Iran through a distributor in the Middle East.

“This is the time bomb waiting to explode on the Fiorina campaign,” said Josh Trevino, DeVore’s spokesman.

Julie Soderlund, a spokeswoman for Fiorina, called the charges “unfounded attacks.”

“These politically motivated allegations are false, based solely on speculative media reports and are not supported by any verified facts,” she said. “During Carly Fiorina’s tenure at HP the company complied with the law and did not violate U.S. sanctions regarding trade issues with Iran.”

DeVore, who’s running last in the polls, is eager to focus on Israel and Iran and to have Campbell and Fiorina spend time defending their records.

“It’s a great opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder with these people and explain why he’s the only consistent conservative with nothing strange to explain about the past,” Trevino said. “I think it’ll be a great contrast.”

All in all, it’s shaping up to be a fiercely contested race, which will be decided in a primary June 8. The winner will try to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November.

In advance of the debate, the rhetoric has gotten plenty hot: Last week, one of Campbell’s prominent supporters said that Fiorina’s campaign manager had called Campbell an anti-Semite, a charge that was quickly denied.

James Fisfis, Campbell’s spokesman, said the attacks on Campbell “have sunk to unforeseen depths, going from bizarre to, now, grotesque.”

Campbell, who was elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives after he took a leave of absence from Stanford University, where he was a law professor, wants Friday’s debate to focus on national security and foreign policy.

In response to the controversy over Israel, Campbell said he’d voted against a $30 million increase in aid to Israel because it would have taken money from an aid allotment for Africa. He said that the Jerusalem measure in 1990 had been introduced by a Democrat as a way to embarrass the George H.W. Bush administration.

Regarding his alleged link to extremists, Campbell says he made a mistake in associating with Sami Al-Arian, a sympathizer of radical Islamic movements. Campbell wrote a letter of recommendation on Al-Arian’s behalf, but he says that even George W. Bush posed for a photograph with Al-Arian in the spring of 2000, when Bush was campaigning for president.