By Reut R. Cohen and Jonathan Constantine Movroydis
It is a well-chronicled fact that modern academia is no friend of Israel. Even in this generally hostile environment, however, the University of California at Irvine stands in a class of its own.
Witness the school’s tradition of allowing the campus chapter of Muslim Student Union (MSU) to hold events whose sole aim is to denounce Israel and America, while supporting Islamic terrorist groups. Past events hosted in this mold have been titled “Hamas: the People’s Choice” and “Israel: The 4th Reich,” and have featured far-left demagogues like professors Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, as well as Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali, a black imam notorious for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and his open championing of Hamas and Hezbollah.
This year is no exception. From May 7 to May 15, the MSU will host a series of programs that will demonize Israel as a Nazi state. Titled “Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust,” this year’s hate-fest will include speakers like Imam Amir Abdel Malik Ali and Norman Finkelstein. If past experience is any guide, this year’s event will be give Israel’s enemies much to cheer about.
A review of the scheduled speakers bears out this impression. Among them, for instance, is Amir Abdel Malik Ali. A regular speaker at UCI, he has in the past informed Muslim students that a martyr’s death is the most honorable death. In May of 2007, to chants of “Allah Akbar!” from the Muslim Student Union, he shouted: “[W]e will not stop until we are either victorious or until we are martyred!” Not surprisingly, Ali will be delivering the keynote address at this year’s event. Read more ...
It is a well-chronicled fact that modern academia is no friend of Israel. Even in this generally hostile environment, however, the University of California at Irvine stands in a class of its own.
Witness the school’s tradition of allowing the campus chapter of Muslim Student Union (MSU) to hold events whose sole aim is to denounce Israel and America, while supporting Islamic terrorist groups. Past events hosted in this mold have been titled “Hamas: the People’s Choice” and “Israel: The 4th Reich,” and have featured far-left demagogues like professors Norman Finkelstein and Ward Churchill, as well as Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali, a black imam notorious for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and his open championing of Hamas and Hezbollah.
This year is no exception. From May 7 to May 15, the MSU will host a series of programs that will demonize Israel as a Nazi state. Titled “Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust,” this year’s hate-fest will include speakers like Imam Amir Abdel Malik Ali and Norman Finkelstein. If past experience is any guide, this year’s event will be give Israel’s enemies much to cheer about.
A review of the scheduled speakers bears out this impression. Among them, for instance, is Amir Abdel Malik Ali. A regular speaker at UCI, he has in the past informed Muslim students that a martyr’s death is the most honorable death. In May of 2007, to chants of “Allah Akbar!” from the Muslim Student Union, he shouted: “[W]e will not stop until we are either victorious or until we are martyred!” Not surprisingly, Ali will be delivering the keynote address at this year’s event. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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