Wednesday, May 07, 2008

PetitionTo UC Irvine Re: Muslim Student Organization Demonizing Jews

From an email:
PetitionTo UC Irvine Re: Muslim Student Organization Demonizing Jews

To: UC Irvine

We, the undersigned, condemn this year's "Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust" as yet another program sponsored by UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union that demonizes Jews, Zionism and Israel with falsehoods and misrepresentations, including the monstrous lie that Israel is perpetrating a holocaust against the Palestinian Arabs. These programs are not legitimate political discourse about the conflict in the Middle East.

They are hateful, anti-Semitic, and violate UCI's principles and values, which call for a campus environment of positive engagement and mutual respect, free from expressions of bigotry. As the United States Civil Rights Commission declared, "Anti-Semitic bigotry is no less morally deplorable when camouflaged as anti-Israelism or anti-Zionism."

We call on the Muslim Student Union to renounce the rhetoric of hate and engage in civil intellectual discourse that is free from falsehoods, misrepresentations, prejudice and bigotry.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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