Thursday, September 1, 2005
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East is looking for signatures on this petition addressed to the Governor of California on the enormous problem of virulent anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism on California college campuses.
Read the letter, then sign the petition.
Also, see this article written by some banana slugs (UC Santa Cruz professors) on the difficulties involved in arguing for a balanced presentation on the Middle East: Faculty Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Bias at the University of California, Santa Cruz
...Although these speakers presented important information about the new anti-Semitism, our efforts to educate the campus community in this way met considerable resistance from both students and faculty. Flyers for many of the talks were pulled down, occluded, or defaced with statements such as "Zionism is racism" and "Occupation is murder." One UCSC professor was even caught in the act of tearing down a flyer advertising Itamar Marcus. As noted, few students and even fewer faculty members attended these talks...
