Monday, June 07, 2010

It's about time!

Aaron Elias writes for Pajamas Media: Finally: Pushing Back Against the MSU at UC Irvine.

For years, anti-Israel student organizations like the Muslim Student Union and Students for Justice in Palestine have held an annual “Israel Apartheid Week” on college campuses across the nation. The events draw widespread criticism for their frequent use of hateful rhetoric, incitement to violence, thinly-veiled anti-Semitic speeches, and flagrant distortion of facts and history. For years, this circus sideshow of half-truths and hatred has gone unhindered, with no political pro-Israel or even moderate week to rival it.

That changed last month at the campus of UC Irvine.

From May 19 to 21, a new club on UCI’s campus by the name of Movement for Peace in the Middle East (MPME) lined the main campus road with several displays depicting facts about the Jewish refugees in the Arab world as well as Islamic terrorism targeting Israel and Jews, Nazism in the Arab world, and the connection between the campus Muslim Student Union (MSU) and terror groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Because of this, Jewish students have been clamoring for a direct political response to the ever-hateful “Israeli Apartheid Week” for years. MPME Week is that response, and considering Yerushalmi’s track record for planning and developing campus events and clubs, it is only going to get bigger.

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