UCI Intifada: Preaching Terror on Campus

• Yesterday, I visited the Crystal Cove Auditorium at UCI to hear Amir Abdul-Malik Ali, a radical Islamic activist sponsored by UCI's Muslim Student Union. As soon as I arrived I could hear his typical racist vitriol on how the Jewish people are the greatest threat to civilization; the same sentiment I had heard months earlier when I heard him at the front of the flag polls praising Hezbollah's war of attrition against Israel. This time it was different. As soon as I took my seat, with Sony camcorder in hand, many members of the audience gave me the stare of death. One guy sitting next to me told me to put my camera away. "The speaker doesn't want to be audio or video recorded, he said. I refused. So a band of thugs from the Muslim Student Union started to flood the aisles, blocked my camera view, and threatened to get the police If I didn't stop recording. The police never came. From talks with them afterward, they seemed unsympathetic to Mr. Ali and his army of spawns. Dean Edgar J. Dormitorio, in charge of security at the event, finally told me to go. So I succumbed to his wishes.
• The intimidation didn't stop there. Members of the Muslim Student Union tracked my movements as I walked across the 1500 acre campus and stalked me to my next class. As soon as I sit down, I received similar stares. A man comes in class with his little sister, who I assume attended the Holocaust revival speech with him, and snaps a picture of me.
• Why did the MSU’s thugs shove and demand that I empty the footage from my camera? We have all heard Mr. Ali preach hate before, what was different about this time? If they sponsor men like Mr. Ali, why are they so paranoid and embarrassed about what he has to say?
• In the spirit of full dislosure, here is some raw footage of my struggle to capture the speech before I was forced to shut the camera off.

Comments

[Pat]

Good post. I guess it's good no one threw a cinderblock at you!

[Long-time politico]

Thank you, El, for your courage and great post. You have experienced the challenge that radical Islam presents for a free and open society. They use the very freedoms that they deplore to try to tear us down. Burke's admonition comes to mindn that 'All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.' Thank you for your action.

[SHAWN STEEL]

The modern day Fascist Thugs did quite the same at Sac State recently. That Administration also enabled the Fascists to shut down a meeting featuring Ward Connerly sponsored by College Republicans.

We must anticipate that our First Amendment Rights will be challenged at Universities. In general, college campuses are hostile environments for balanced free speech.

1. Always plan for harrassment.
2. Bring several people with you, each armed with videos. Everyone has a video.
3. Find out who from the local press will be there Before the event and make contact.
4. Arrange to have your rep liaison with the Administration official who will be present. Get that name in advance.
5. If this a CR program, arrange to get OFF campus Rep help. If notified, they will come. These Blogs are helpful for this purpose.
6. Be sure to invite a CRLA [Ca Rep Lawyers Assn] attorney to be there. Contact Steve Baric.

Nazi Brown Shirters were quite effective reducing opposition on German campuses. We cannot allow similar occurances to grow in the already besieged California campuses.

[Jimy the Dhimmi]

whoa. Dude, take your video camera everywhere you go from now on. If you see someone following you on campus, take some footage until you cand identify him. Save copies on multiple hard-drives!

[Duke Martin]

The Islamofascists at UC Irvine are supported by, among too many others, the LA Times and the rest of the SoCal MSM. From experience let me assure you that if you can't attract a hundred or so tough guys to back you up, you lose. And from what I see, white guys have become the castrati of the U.S. We have lost both our balls and our country.

[Roastedredpeppers]

Excellent reporting! As Justice Brandeis once said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." This video will help expose the rot of radical, anti-semitic Jihadism that infects higher education.

[Concerned UCI Student]

El Liberdator - bless your soul!

Please do me, Reut Cohen, and in fact every Jewish student on campus a favor: file a complaint ASAP.

Send an email To: deanstu@uci.edu

CC: rrcohen@uci.edu, Tedblei@gmail.com, referrals@usccr.gov, stuchman@zoa.org

The CC's are for:
- Reut,

- Ted Bleiweis of the Hillel Task Force investigating anti-Semitism at UCI,

- The US Commission on Civil Rights, which has found that campus anti-Semitism is a significant problem across the US - a problem that they have stated universities need to fix - and they want to hear about incidents such as this one

- Susan Tuchman of the Zionist Organization of America, who filed a complaint to the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and continually updates DoE/OCR regarding the status of the anti-Semitism at UCI so they can add it to their investigation

Include a link to this page. If you have more video, please post it.

Demand to know under UCI code number(s) you violated by videotaping the event.

State that - as I'm sure you'll agree - you feel that this is discrimination.

State that - as I'm sure you'll agree - that there is no place for secret socities at UCI - the public has a right to scrutinize what happens on a public university campus.

Once that's done, then, if you're up for it, I know of an attorney who has offered to represent students who confront the anti-Semitism pro bono.

Oh and make a few copies of your video and give them to friends or family, just in case.

If you have questions, please contact Reut (rrcohen@uci.edu) and she can put you in touch with me.

[I support your right to education without intimidation]

Anti-Zionism is Racism
by Judea Pearl

In the past three months, I have visited four “troubled” campuses — Duke, York (Canada), Columbia and UC Irvine — where tensions between Jewish and anti-Zionist students and professors have attracted national attention. In these visits, I have spoken to students, faculty and administrators, and I have obtained a fairly gloomy picture of the situation on those and other campuses.

Jewish students are currently subjected to an unprecedented assault on their identity as Jews. And we, the Jewish faculty on campus, have let those students down. We have failed to equip them with effective tools to fight back this assault.

We can reverse this trend.

Many condemn anti-Zionism for being a flimsy cover for anti-Semitism. I disagree. The order is wrong. I condemn anti-Semitism for being an instrument for a worse form of racism: anti-Zionism.

In other words, I submit that anti-Zionism is a form of racism more dangerous than classical anti-Semitism. Framing anti-Zionism as racism is precisely the weapon that our students need for survival on campus.

Anti-Zionism earns its racist character from denying the Jewish people what it grants to other collectives (e.g. Spanish, Palestinians), namely, the right to nationhood and self-determination.

Are Jews a nation? A collective is entitled to nationhood when its members identify with a common history and wish to share a common destiny. Palestinians have earned nationhood status by virtue of thinking like a nation, not by residing where their ancestors did (many of them are only three or four generations in Palestine). Jews, likewise, are bonded by nationhood (i.e., common history and destiny) more than they are bonded by religion.

The appeal to Jewish nationhood is necessary when we consider Israel’s insistence on remaining a “Jewish state.” By “Jewish state” Israelis mean, of course, “national Jewish state,” not “religious Jewish state” — theocratic states (like Pakistan and Iran) are incompatible with modern standards of democracy and pluralism. Anti-Zionist racists use this anti-theocracy argument repeatedly to delegitimize Israel, and I have found our students unable to defend their position with conventional ideology that views Jewishness as a religion.

Jewishness is more than just a religion. It is an intricate and intertwined mixture of ancestry, religion, history, country, culture, tradition, attitude, nationhood and ethnicity, and we need not apologize for not fitting neatly into the standard molds of textbook taxonomies — we did not choose our turbulent history.

As a form of racism, anti-Zionism is worse than anti-Semitism. It targets the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, namely, the people of Israel, who rely on the sovereignty of their state for physical safety, national identity and personal dignity. To put it more bluntly, anti-Zionism condemns 5 million human beings, mostly refugees or children of refugees, to eternal statelessness, traumatized by historical images of persecution and genocide.

Anti-Zionism also attacks the pivotal component of our identity, the glue that bonds us together — our nationhood, our history. And while people of conscience reject anti-Semitism, anti-Zionist rhetoric has become a mark of academic sophistication and social acceptance in Europe and in some U.S. campuses.

Moreover, anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate, exempt from sensitivities and rules of civility that govern interreligious discourse. Religion is ferociously protected in our society — political views are not.

Just last month, a student organization on a UC campus hosted a meeting on “A World Without Israel.” Imagine the international furor that a meeting called, “A World Without Mecca,” would provoke.

So, in the name of “open political debate,” administrators would not think twice about inviting MIT linguist Noam Chomsky to speak on campus, though his anti-Zionist utterances offend the fabric of my Jewish identity deeper than any of the ugly religious insults currently shocking the media. He should be labeled for what he is: a racist.

Charges of “racism” highlight the inherent asymmetry between the Zionist and anti-Zionist positions. The former grants both Israelis and Palestinians the right for statehood, the latter denies that right to one, and only one side. This asymmetry is the most effective weapon our students should use in campus debates, for it puts them back on the high moral grounds of “fair and balanced” and forces their opponents to defend an ideology of one-sidedness.

For example, I have found it effective, when confronting an anti-Zionist speaker, to ask: “Are you willing to go on record and state that the Israel-Palestine conflict is a conflict between two legitimate national movements?” Western audiences adore even-handedness and abhor bias. The question above forces the racist to unveil and defend his uneven treatment of the two sides.

America prides itself on academic freedom, and academic freedom entails freedom to teach hatred and racism — we graciously accept this fact of life. However, academic freedom also entails the freedom of students to expose racism, be it white-supremacy, women-inferiority, Islamophobia or Zionophobia wherever it is spotted. Not to censor, but to expose — racists stew in their own words.

In summary, I believe the formula “Anti-Zionism = Racism” should give Jewish students the courage to both defend their identity and expose those who abuse it.

This opinion piece appeared in The New York Jewish Week.

About the Author: Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, named after his son.

Daniel Pearl was a journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan while investigating the case of a convicted shoe bomber. The Foundation seeks continue Daniel Pearl's mission and uphold his principles which included: uncompromised objectivity and integrity; insightful and unconventional perspective; tolerance and respect for people of all cultures; unshaken belief in the effectiveness of education and communication; and the love of music, humor, and friendship.

Judea Pearl is co-editor of “I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” (Jewish Lights, 2004), winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

[National problem of anti-semitism and anti-americanism must be solved]

Terrorist supporting group called "Anti-Racist Action" (ARA) in Detroit, Michigan.

Complete video of ARA rally on the Wayne State University Campus:

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbfZqX7LWU

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxeweTTLqII

Part III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1BlPhbW5tw

ARA exposed:

http://thesouthend.typepad.com/tsenews/2007/02/reject_aras_rac.html#more

http://thesouthend.typepad.com/tsenews/2007/03/ara_should_reth.html#comments

http://thesouthend.typepad.com/tsenews/2007/03/divesting_from_.html#more

[National problem of anti-semitism and anti-americanism must be solved]

Links cut off above. Here is the rest of the links.

...reject_aras_rac.html#more
...ara_should_reth.html#comments
...divesting_from_.html#more

[Torontonian]

If it is a public event it is a public event and any one can be there and film anything. If it is private event the crazy conspiracy theorists can rent can rent thier own hall.

[Spanish]

It's incredible. I've been twice to the EEUU and I thought you didn't have problems with this way of spoken terrorism. It is very common in some radical mosques but in a University! Under my point of view this is something unacceptable. I believe in freespeech but I can't stand this use of the words aming directly to jews using always the same old lies. Radical Islamists, and i say it with no regrets, are using Nazi strategies all over the world working hard in a propagandistic offensive against Israel and jewish. I always think what would happen if an occidental country like sweden or Portugal, decided to behave agaist Islam the same way Iran behaves against occidental culture. Where are the millions of moderate muslims complaining and making their countries to condemn Iran's policy? This kind of people are commiting criminal acts and should be sent to prison. We are living in years of strong idealistic confrontations. America, with it's responsability of fighting for liberty mustn't loose its ideals because if it does its society will have no defense against people like this guy of the video. It's an obligation of all to stop who's introducing hate drop after drop making ignorants believe that they are victims of occidental culture and members of a mesianic army.

[Black Death]

WELL DONE. NEXT TIME USE A HIDDEN CAMERA.

[Debbie]

Can you believe the same Bill Dalati that ran for Anahiem City Council, the same one who is a memeber of CAIR now sits on the board of Lorri Galloways Eli Home?

[Pork Chop]

Looks like it's time to bring back the Jewish Defense League.

[Chuck DeVore]

Looks like I may have to show up next time with a video recorder. If they are using a state financed facility to preach hate, then we at least should be able to record them.

I'll be asking Chancellor Drake about this.

All the best,

Chuck DeVore
State Assemblyman, 70th District

[Eric Linder]

Great Post!

Send this video to Fox News ASAP!

[Seneca]

Nice post. You hit the nail on the head by revealing MSU's hypocricy. They have been more then willing to disrupt speakers and demonstrations they have not agreed with, however your candid taping of a public presentation at a public university is not allowed by them. Nice post once again.

[Grumpy Old Man]

I'm quite critical of Israel and in particular of our government's undue closeness to Israel.

This kind of thuggery, however, and the administrators who cater to it in the name of some kind of multi-culti victimology, are reprehensible.

[Gomez]

Even worse, here at UCSD, we have the methane producing Al Gore on campus today.

[coach]

It would be a great service if Amir Abdul-Malik Ali would tell us how to recognize a Zionist Jew when wrapped from head to foot like a Muslim terrorist. If someone looking like that emerged out of the restroom on an airplane, it would be comforting to know that it is only some Jewish guy trying to make Muslims look bad. Then I can go back to reading my magazine.

[SonnyJim]

I believe you made a major tactical error in not getting the faces of your direct opposition on camera. Don't make that mistake again. When you are confronted, get their faces and post immediately. Do like the previous commenter noted; carry your camera with you everywhere and begin storing on multiple drives. Also, do random recording sweeps even when you don't think you are being followed.

[Rabbi Yonah]

http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal_rights_of_photographers.shtml

Check out your rights.

You rock!

[KR]

I have felt for a long time now that higher education is a joke. I warn my friends to talk with their college age kids to make sure that the ultra liberal brainwashing does not ruin their perspective.

I have kept both my children out out college in favor of using the funds saved to start businesses for them. The more I read about issues like this one at UCI, the more I know it was the right decission.

Parents......Keep your money. Don't send your children to UCI only to have them come out as misguided political idiots.

[Concerned UCI Student]

If you can, bring your video camera to this Thursday's MSU event in Humanities Hall (HH) 178 at 6 PM:

Apartheid South Africa: A Personal Account with Shaykh Sadullah Khan

[Duh]

[i]I have kept both my children out out college in favor of using the funds saved to start businesses for them....

Parents......Keep your money. Don't send your children to UCI only to have them come out as misguided political idiots.[/i]

Yeah, have them come out as uneducated idiots instead!

[Nobody]

Per UCI Acting Director of Judicial Affairs Edgar Dormitorio - the same guy who threw you out of the event:

"Currently there is no policy related to recordings in indoor venues. As a courtesy to registered student organizations, we have assisted groups when they have made requests to prohibit recordings during their programs. We are in the process of reviewing this practice that has been in place for the past several years . You should be aware that there are many other campuses, including UC sister campuses that have the same practice. Once the review of this practice is complete, student organizations will be informed of the outcome of the review."

Which UC sister campuses? Certainly not UC Riverside - Al Awda moved their conference because otherwise they'd have to permit "Zionists" to record their conference events.

[.]

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[Joseph Dunphy]

Not at all surprising, but disturbing all the same.