Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Sparks Hysteria on Campus

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Campuses nationwide are becoming ugly epicenters of anti-Semitism, as Muslim groups grow increasingly aggressive in defaming Israel and menacing Jewish students, while administrators stand by and do nothing, maintaining themselves in denial, as Dean Chemerinsky does here.

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“Anti-Semitism only on our terms,” by Asaf Romirowsky, Ynet News, January 10, 2017:

The US Senate has unanimously passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by US Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Bob Casey (D-PA). If approved by the House, the bill will give the US Department of Education the statutory tools to examine anti-Semitic incidents in the broadest and effective way possible.The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act will mirror the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism’s definition of anti-Semitism, including critical language to define where anti-Israel bias crosses the line into anti-Semitism. The new Act would enhance the Education Department’s ability to identify, investigate, and punish all forms of anti-Semitism, including anti-Zionism and anti-Israel harassment.

When asked about the Act, Senator Casey channeled Natan Sharnasky’s “3D” definition of anti-Semitism and listed the following examples of where the bill’s tools would be helpful:

  • Calling for, aiding or justifying the killing or harming of Jews,
  • Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust,
  • Demonizing Israel by blaming it for all interreligious or political tensions,
  • Judging Israel by a double standard that one would not apply to any other democratic nation.

Because of the bill’s potential impact on anti-Israel activities, we have seen a steady flow of hysteria and condemnation, in particular from the far left. Israel boycott groups like Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claim that the bill’s “overly broad language has the potential to define any criticism of Israeli policy as anti-Semitic,” and that it would prevent “frank discussions of the impact of Zionism, campus disagreements about the future of Israel/Palestine, and in fact, much of what falls under Jewish studies in all facets, including courses.”

The irony is that JVP in particular, which supports and advocates for boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) against Israel, is only willing to have “frank discussions” through its own prism, which sees Israel as the source of all evil in the Middle East and something to be abolished.

University administrators like Chancellor Howard Gillman and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky from the University of California, Irvine also took issue with the bill, despite living on a campus with one of the country’s most hostile educational environments for Jewish students.

Earlier this year at Irvine, a Jewish student emerging from a Holocaust-related event was chased by a mob of “anti-Israel” protesters and was forced to barricade herself in a school building as her pursuers banged on the doors and windows and chanted “Long live the Intifada!” She had to be rescued by the police.

In 2010, following the shouting down of then-Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, Dean Chemerinsky wrote that he has not seen “the slightest indication of anti-Semitism” at UC Irvine, nor “heard one complaint about an anti-Semitic incident on campus.”

Despite being a distinguished constitutional scholar, Dean Chemerinsky mischaracterized the proposed Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, claiming that the bill would “require the Education Department, when deciding whether to investigate incidents on campus, to consider the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism.”

That is not what the bill says. Rather, under the proposed legislation, the Department of Education would consider the State Department definition – adopted in 2010 – when deciding whether severe, persistent, and pervasive harassment and intimidation (that federal civil rights statutes are designed to prevent) were motivated by anti-Jewish animus. That distinction is critical. On its face, the proposed legislation would not in any way encourage or permit the government to investigate or take action against protected speech-based and expressive activities.

In fact, Irvine provides the strongest evidence that the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act is needed now more than ever. It is dismaying, but not surprising, that these two administrators and groups like JVP would rather misrepresent the text and constitutional soundness of the proposed legislation than address the culture of anti-Semitic hate that has arisen around the country, particularly at universities….

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Any campus that allows racial, ethnic or religious hatred to be promoted, or any student injured of threatened because of their non criminal beliefs, should immediately loose all government funding, as well as prosecuted under appropriate hate crime legislation.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

amen, and trump’s DOJ should swarm them with hundreds of lawyers and lawsuits and destroy them like eric “i hate whitey” holder did to the law-abiding banks in this country. i truly hope trump comes out swinging a sword against the left next week. they are a paper tiger, and i think he knows it

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Rocinante44

As it appears, President Trump is not afraid of paper or real tigers. He has shown remarkable restraint, so far, but I am very certain that when he gives orders, they will be followed, not excuses made not to do anything while more delays are invented. Orders are definitely on the way, his background is in business where time is money. Not community organizing, where time is meaningless as it is paid for by government grants.

tokoloshiman
tokoloshiman
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

its lose , not loose btw.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  tokoloshiman

@!!%ing word fill.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

A double edged sword because what religious group do you think would take full advantage of your proposal? I’ll bet you can guess it in one try.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

The status quo is completely unacceptable. There will have to be some changes made.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago

Cut off funds to such campuses. They are typically highly dependent on such funding, and highly desperate to get it.

Tilt
Tilt
7 years ago

Trump & Betsy DeVos will SOON open these regressive, muzlim coddling, Antisemitic liberals, another feces exit…

pdxnag
pdxnag
7 years ago

It should include a provision or amendment to swiftly expel any alien who foments this genocidal hate against Jews – or the new Jews of the world, the white man for being white.

Mannie
Mannie
7 years ago
Reply to  pdxnag

To require the expulsion of any STUDENT who foments this genocidal hate against Jews, with that fact permanently annotated to their transcript. We need to purge those scum from the universities.

GFRF
GFRF
7 years ago

Jew haters don’t use frank discussions regarding anything about the Jewish state.

Their hatred is palpable! Good for the Senate; may the House pass this bill.

Dennis
Dennis
7 years ago

This article reinforces, in my mind, the failure of people to recognize the realities of these times, and to act reasonably and responsibly. I am gratified that this bill has a chance to accept that reality and project an outcome that might bring some sense back to our universities and its students. I also commend Senators Rubio and Cotton on their bill raised to defund the anti-Semitic conduct that emanates daily from the U.N. I know that we will likely never end the unjustified hate directed at those of Jewish persuasion, as it seems that this conduct is the rule, not the exception to many wrong thinking people, but I am pleased that its existence is now becoming noteworthy and action is being attempted to dissipate some of the nasty conduct that flows from the abhorrent conduct of those with so much hate and anti-Semitism. Reality has clearly established that anti-Semitism is built into the Islamic belief system, and I doubt that it will ever be rejected by these people. Because it permeates their thinking, those people cannot accept any neighborly attitude to the Jews, who are a people who do not seek domination, treat all humans equally, are peaceful and do not promote terrorism. That is the reality that this world and our academic community is facing here. I certainly believe in free speech and the right to assemble and non-violently express your personal opinions, but I cannot accepts violence and opinion that has as its basis an underlying hate that has no merit as anti-Semitism has no merit. Right and reasonable thinking people do not have to accept those underlying motives for speaking out. The more we raise the specter of the hate and its foundation, the more we will be able to impact on its affect on our free society. Like the so-called Women’s March that we have recently seen, one must recognize that it is based on an untrue belief by those involved that somehow President Trump is a racist and treats women as less than equal. That is another liberal misstatement that I expect will some day be seen as such. Trump is a “street fighter,” not a bigot or racist and certainly he is not anti-women. His responsive comments to many of those who have engaged in adversarial conduct is simply his way of responding to negative commentary. Although I recognize that many people will never accept that type of conduct as being Presidential, I, at least, recognize that is how he has determined he needs to react to wrong headed commentary, and until our society also recognizes that, the liberal press and the ultra liberal Democrats will never understand those realities. I hope that Trump follows thru on what he says needs to be done to “clean out the swamp” and maybe actually make “America great again.”

Patrick
Patrick
7 years ago

Long Overdue

Ron rockit
Ron rockit
7 years ago

Our dear friend Irwin Chemerinski (I call him Garbage) sued CAT on behalf of a half witted Rachael Corrie. The misguided 21 year old that stood shoulder to shoulder with hamas in Gaza. She got ran over. Chemerinski lost in court.!

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Ron rockit

When you go to IHOP, make sure to order the Rachel Corrie special!

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Yep! Flat as a pancake!

TerrorIsEvil
TerrorIsEvil
7 years ago

We do not allow the KKK on campus so why allow the Muslim Brotherhood and agents from Hamas (with help from the radical left) to pollute students’ minds with hateful garbage?

pipo
pipo
7 years ago
Reply to  TerrorIsEvil

What have KKK and muzzrats in common? They are both as dumb as you get.

Craig
Craig
7 years ago
Reply to  TerrorIsEvil

Because the democrats are siding with the muzzies to cause terror and intimidate Americans. It is called the Hegelian Dialectic. Look it up.
The democrats want a communist American and they will get in bed with the devil if it will aid their ends.

TerrorIsEvil
TerrorIsEvil
7 years ago
Reply to  Craig

I had a quick look and with my limited knowledge of Philosophy, I picked up the gist. One effective commentator said, “Dialogues and consensus-building are primary tools of the
dialectic, and terror and intimidation are also acceptable formats for
obtaining the goal.” If I am not mistaken, in applying the Hegelian
Dialectic, the conclusions are reached going into the debate and the debate
itself is a smokescreen with elements of consensus building. The older Socratic
methods of arriving at conclusions after ideas are put through a vetting and
debating process are thrown out in favor of a top-down imposition of truth with
an accompanying phony indoctrination to make participants feel as if they are
engaging in a process when they are actually being made part of a propaganda-affirmation
process.

I see how this all applies to the current situation where communism and Islamism are being imposed by wide-eyed students and academics who have been programmed to believe rather
than encouraged to discuss and debate. The students today participate in imposed “debates” which have preordained conclusions.

The Hegelian Dialectic is diametrically opposed to the Jewish tradition which is Socratic and involves lots of debate, discussion and argumentation which sometimes never arrives at a concrete
conclusion.This might explain why the leftists hate Jews through their displays of hate against and quest to destroy Israel.

Craig
Craig
7 years ago
Reply to  TerrorIsEvil

YES! You have it. The left sees only the fight, the struggle for their communist ideals.
Your eyes are open, now.

allen
allen
7 years ago
Reply to  TerrorIsEvil

actually we should allow both on campus. but don’t allow anyone to hide behind lies. let the world know exactly what their beliefs are..debate them in an open forum. that’s how you win. banning something just pushes it underground.

I want everyone to feel perfectly able to fly any freaky flag they want. this way you know EXACTLY where they stand and can treat them accordingly.

TerrorIsEvil
TerrorIsEvil
7 years ago
Reply to  allen

Yes, I have said the same thing about letting everyone into the debate in the past but after years of watching the left open the doors to vermin and banning any event where they can be effectively exposed (always security concerns) and challenged, I wonder if equal rights for people who speak the truth will ever get beyond the barriers put in place by the liars on the left.

Free speech is one-sided today – enjoyed by the most raucous and violent and growing more in that direction..and the left use the free speech cry to allow it and to drown out debate as well. If discipline is imposed they scream “fascism” and it descrnds into chaos from there and nobody is heard.

Kristi17
Kristi17
7 years ago

Antisemitism is Anti-Christian and Jewish people / Anti-Israel-Yisrael / Anti-Zionism and more!!

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United We Stand With the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation USA, Divided We FALL!!

Please PRAY for the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation USA Everyday!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

I am Pro-Israel-Yisrael / Pro-Zionism / Pro-Christian and Jewish People / Pro-USA Capitalism and More / Pro-Life!!

Happy Shavua Tov ( Good Week ) Everyone!!

Love Always and Shalom, YSIC o/

Kristi Ann

felix1999
felix1999
7 years ago

Deport MUSLIMS and look at the professors and what they are TEACHING.
It’s propaganda indoctrination.
STOP ACCEPTING MUSLIM MONEY at colleges and unversitys
Georgetown University and Harvard have accepted MILLIONS from the Saudis for an ISLAMIC STUDIES CENTER. I think it was 40 MILLION for each.

Peter Joffe
Peter Joffe
7 years ago

As I said in a previous post of the Rock Band The Beatles who composed and sang a fantastic song “Cant Buy Me Love” which of course is true but, what you can buy is hate. Universities world wide have bought into the hate sales of Islam who now run these institutions of hatred instead of learning!

Greta Poole
Greta Poole
7 years ago

This is a public space and it is ridiculous that any Muslim can get away with this. If any other person held a Anit Muslim Week, Anti Burka Week, Anti Allah Week, Halal Free Week, – can you imagine the uproar that would happen. No-one would even do this for fear of reprimand and for fear of offending someone. Why are the Muslims so sacred – why is it ok for them to do or say anything – but God forbid if you dare say anything negative about them you are in more poo than Batman????

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

If these students want a real education, then “Crusade In Europe” by General Dwight D.Eisenhower should be required reading. In view of the exorbitant tuition being charged these days, no education is complete without it. Upon liberating the Nazi death camps in the closing days of WWII, the Allied troops were appalled at the conditions they found. Eisenhower states that he knew no one could comprehend, or would believe, the level of evil, depravity, and inhumanity they found. As a result he ordered Army photographers and publicists to extensively document all that was found. There was no “Photoshop” in those days. Thus, the first hand evidence available today.

allen
allen
7 years ago

I want to sit in the bushes, fire bottle rockets at the “divest” idiots, and when questioned, claim that where they are standing is my ancestral land and allah told me I had to kill them all.

it should work, right?

conan_drum
conan_drum
7 years ago

It is obvious that those accusing Israel of apartheid know nothing of Israel and nothing about apartheid. In Israel people of all religions live and work together, there are Arab members of parliament in a democracy. The so called ‘palestinians’ can go into Israel as is proven by the frequency of their jihad attacks there. They also often are treated in Israel’s hospitals, as advanced medical treatment is lacking in the territories controlled by Hamas and Fatah.
If they want to show apartheid, Saudi Arabia and Iran are much closer example

Abraham
Abraham
7 years ago

The reality is that most colleges allow this type of behavior to continue under the guise of freedom of speech. The left in academia allows it and defends it. Intolerance is elevated among the left at the expense of those whose beliefs are different. Schools like UC. Irvine, Davis, Oberlin, and many more do not provide a safe place for Jewish or Christian students whose world view is contrary to the established norm on campus. Since this is now becoming the norm among the vast majority of schools, it might be best for potential student to get a good education in Israel. The culture on campus has changed and students should be aware.

charlie baker
charlie baker
7 years ago

I think that simply removing all speech restrictions on campuses around the country would be a better way to handle this, rather than stifling some but allowing others to speak freely. Special legislation, I think, just encourages divisiveness. If everyone could speak and demonstrate freely, which they have a Constitutional right to do anyway, the effect would be to even out everything. Sort of like ‘an armed society is a polite society’ attitude, or allowing market forces to work without government intervention. We don’t need to go around and legislate every damned little thing! People can and will protect themselves better than any laws.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
7 years ago

So the new Anti-Semitism Act is actually already having an affect. The anti-Semites are already showing us who they are. We don’t have to go look for them.

Mannie
Mannie
7 years ago

The Nazis have their nickers in a knot. Good.

tokoloshiman
tokoloshiman
7 years ago

It’s not coincidental that wherever there are large numbers of muslim students represented by the anti Israel anti jew MSA , there is nazi type violence and intimidation of jews. The muslim students who partake in these anti jew acts should be expelled, permanently.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  tokoloshiman

That would be sweet, but in the muslum friendly atmosphere of today’s college/uni campuses it’ll never happen — especially when muslum petrodollars can buy off campus administration.

sharon gragowski
sharon gragowski
7 years ago

Most campuses have it. FSU was boycotting Israeli products around the campus at one time. Don’t forget that Al Arian started up at FSU and did a good job although he was deported. Cair offers internships for law students which they take because of lack of work. We have been and still are really disturbed at the pro Palestinian agenda; beginning with Humanities professors who use Karen Armstrong for setwork books, eg. The Great Transformation and Jerusalem (everyone knows that she wrote “Muhammad A prophet for our time” ) to students who believe it is cool to carry a Koran instead of a Bible on trips to Israel. Karen Armstrong’s opinions take the
miraculous out of the Bible and to someone who reads or studies the
Bible; it is disturbingly secular. In the last two years a lot of Syrian refugee students appeared suddenly in their hundreds in Honors classes. Unfortunately this subversive culture seems to have spread all over, from colleges and universities, where top positions seem to have been taken by Huma Aberdeen & Co; to social webs like facebook where it becomes difficult to express honest opinions. What a waste of time, talent and creativity! It is also a massive red flag. Be very aware of what is happening!!!

Christian Abel
Christian Abel
7 years ago

“Judging Israel by a double standard that one would not apply to any other democratic nation.”

is difficult to apply. Different contexts.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Where could all this new antisemitism in the USA be coming from? Twenty years ago, the University of California, Irvinistan didn’t have problems w/antisemtism. What’s changed since then? F’ing muslum students in droves.

Geppetto
Geppetto
7 years ago

It’s not just anti-semitism that has infected American institutions of higher learning.

This anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Colonialist movement grew, from the ever present, radical fringe groups, during the Vietnam war when many draft (college) age men left the country to avoid conscription into that human meat grinder that Americans had no stomach for. We weren’t in it to win it, some 50,000 young Americans died, in an exercise in futility, and the majority of the country said, enough is enough.

That attitude of disgust and disrespect for American leadership, its men and women in the military, and alleged, expansionist imperialism, led to the rise of the anti-American, radical and sometimes violent left. These radicals went nowhere, in the short term, with their violent tactics, but saw a major, longer term opportunity to subvert and build an army of like minded radicals by infiltrating America’s institutions of higher learning. Youthful, immature, eager and malleable minds waiting to be indoctrinated by “mature, brilliant, dedicated” and, most importantly, tenured, radical intellectuals. Think a small army of untouchable Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill clones.

Adults, parents, complacent, disengaged, otherwise occupied on the business of making a living and imbued with a respect and trust for the teaching profession, concentrated on their children’s grades and the ever growing and exorbitant tuition costs and not the content of what they were being taught. That chicken is now coming home to roost and some, like these rampant, totally illogical, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel movements on college campuses, has already laid a large number of rotten eggs.

America is now on the edge of a precipitous slope with government, the media, the entertainment venues and academia as thriving, dedicated, activist hotbeds of anti-Americanism; love of country replaced by indoctrinated aversion and hatred for the hand that nourishes their ungrateful lives.

This broad, multi-faceted dilemma will not be resolved by one law but it is a step down the right road to a very far off destination which will likely take at least a few generations and require far more attention, by all patriotic Americans, than its been given for the past few decades.

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

Its about time, that a law like this was introduced. Now lets get it passed!

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