Who Is Uttering Hate Speech At San Francisco State University?
The fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the recent Gaza incursion may have brought a tentative peace to that region, but on campuses in California—the veritable ground zero of anti-Israel sentiment in the academy—the debate over the 60-year conflict has gained a new, and more insidious, momentum. The virulence of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism at The University of California, Irvine campus, for instance, has been so flagrant and endemic in recent years that it actually prompted an investigation by the U.S. Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights, the findings of which were issued in a damning 2007 report. But San Francisco State University is not far behind in the ignoble way it has enabled its Muslim students organizations to create a veritable reign of terror on campus against Jewish and pro-Israel students, while simultaneously attempting to silence voices of opposition, a situation made evident this January when SFSUs College Republicans were once again pushed i