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Anti-Israel Events at UC Irvine Spark Controversy
May 15, 2006
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Controversial events scheduled at UC Irvine this week with such provocative titles as "Holocaust in the Holy Land" and "Israel: The Fourth Reich" are sparking outrage among Jewish students who are asking administrators to denounce aspects of the event.

Jewish students and community leaders say the program is the latest in a string of offensive incidents at the university. The U.S. Office for Civil Rights is investigating anti-Semitism at UCI, the first probe of its kind at a college.

"Instead of the university being a place for dialogue and discussion of important issues, it's being turned into a platform for hate speech and bigotry," said Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, a spiritual advisor at colleges in Long Beach and Orange County.

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Posted By: Larry R on 2/21/2010 6:17:00 AM

There is not one Muslim country with a democratic government. They have zero tolerance for other religions. They espouse domination of what we call the Free World. In spite of this, the administrators at UCI allow a handfull of Muslim students to make a mockery of freedom of speech, something I fought to defend in Vietnam, as did my faher before me in WWII.  What is wrong with these people??


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