Archive for June, 2010

21Jun
2010

Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com

Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com. Students across the country are monitoring events at UC Irvine as pro- Israel groups try to reestablish their deterrence capacity on American campuses. After a 4-month-long investigation, UC Irvine’s administration last week announced an unprecedented recommendation to suspend for one year the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a registered campus organization, for its alleged involvement in disrupting a Feb. 8 speech by Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Eleven [...]

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16Jun
2010

UCI MSU Appeals Recommendation to Suspend MSU

UC Irvine’s Senior Executive Director of Student Housing recently gave a recommendation to suspend the UCI’s Muslim Student Union group for one year. The allegations arose as a result to a UCI-hosted event at which Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was disrupted several times by students, some of whom were members of UCI’s MSU. The MSU, who were surprised by this recommendation, filed an appeal and released a statement on their website. The Jewish Federation Orange County was quick to publicize [...]

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13Jun
2010

CAIR Calls for FBI Probe of Attack on Calif. Muslim

CAIR Calls for FBI Probe of Attack on Calif. Muslim Sunnyvale Muslim reportedly beaten after being call ‘terrorist’ (SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 06/12/2010) – The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) today called on the FBI to initiate a hate crime investigation into an attack on a local Muslim allegedly beaten after being called a “terrorist.” CAIR-SFBA said the Sunnyvale, Calif., resident was walking down the street Friday afternoon when he was approached by three young men [...]

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