UC IRVINE MUSLIM STUDENT UNION ANTI-ZIONISM EVENTS, WEEK I

We're heading into week 2 of the UCI MSU's annual anti-Israel hatefest. This year they've really outdone themselves by actively searching for how to be most offensive - in this case, claiming the Holocaust as their own and diluting the horror committed to Jews - and wrapping it up in the thinnest of nudge-nudge wink-wink liberal veneers. Bravo. It's just insane out there. Reut Cohen has been doing her best to document some of the more absurd atrocities, but she's being overwhelmed both by the Muslims and by the flaming incompetence of what passes as Jewish leadership on today's American college campuses:

In the video clip above, Churchill urges students with the MSU to go to the pro-Israel booth on Ring Road, to eat a slice of the cake they have, to "get a plate, [and] proceed symbolically to eat the state of Israel." He also discusses "liberation" and "resistance." Somehow Ward Churchill made his way into the pro-Israel booth today, and took a slice of cake and a t-shirt. I have no idea how this happened and why he was allowed into the booth.

She's got video on that, but we've not going to embed it because we're hoping that for every 10 of you that go over there, at least one will RSS her. And that'll be one more person reading about the surreal swamp of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism that has spread across the UC Irvine campus. You should also click through to this post, which has video of Churchill that moved Reut to dub him "one of the most hateful individuals [she's] ever come across". Bold words for a UC Irvine Jewish student.

[Read an extended version of this post at Mere Rhetoric]

AS FAR AS SMIRKING ANTI-SEMITISM GOES, UC IRVINE MUSLIMS HAVE REALLY OUTDONE THEMSELVES

UC Irvine blogger Reut Cohen is all over this latest outrage:

The MSU is, once again, manipulating the Holocaust to push their anti-Israel agenda. Although the Holocaust is a term that refers to the plight of Jewish people from Europe during World War II, the MSU continuously insists on promoting their despicable events with the use of this term.

The only Holocaust survivor that they've brought in to speak also happens to be a member of the International Solidarity Movement. The other two speakers are as follows: a lunatic anti-Semitic anti-Zionist imam from DC and a disgraced plagiarist who makes ever our academic commitment look admirable. If you guessed that the latter is Ward Churchill - and that UCI's Muslim Student Union managed to wrap anti-Americanism into their annual week of particularly intense Israel hatred - then you're the big winner. In a manner of speaking.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]