Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel Incidents on U.S. College Campuses, 2002-2004 · 01 August 2004
June 6, 2004: Arsonists attacked the Hillel House at UC-Santa Cruz.
(Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 8, 2004)
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April 21, 2004 The student newspaper at Rutgers University, The Medium, published a cartoon showing a man throwing a ball at another man sitting on an oven at the campus' spring fair. The text read: "Knock a Jew in the oven! Three throws for one dollar! Really! No, REALLY!"
(Associated Press, April 27, 2004)
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February 10, 2004: A leaflet handed out at a guest lecture about the Mideast at UC-Berkeley declared "The neo-conservatives and the Jewish lobby ... planned the Iraq wars ... Most of the US media are Jewish owned." A poster at the event had the slogans "I Want You ! to DIE for Israel" and "Israel sings: Onward Christian Soldiers," with swastikas instead of the letter "s" in "Israel." The person holding the sign wore an Uncle Sam hat with a swastika on it. One protester said, "The Jews broke into Palestine and stole their land - so they deserve to die." Student hecklers yelled at the speaker, "Death to Zionism!" and "You racist Jew!"
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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February 2004: At the sixth annual Muslim Students Association West Conference, held at UC-Berkeley, speaker Abdel Malik Ali denounced "the Zionist Jews" and asserted that "neo-cons are all Zionist Jews." He also read aloud a newspaper article about Jewish leaders fearing an antisemitic backlash after the Iraq war, and added: "Let the backlash begin."
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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Nov. 28, 2003: The Daily Cal, student newspaper at UC-Berkeley published an article by Bradley Smith, America's foremost Holocaust-denier, in which he wrote: "Jews remember what is most profitable for them to remember. As for the rest, they forget it."
(Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, December 5, 2003)
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Nov. 9, 2003: A three-foot high swastika and an antisemitic epithet were drawn on a building at Northwestern University.
(Chicago Tribune, Nov. 11, 2003)
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Nov. 7, 2003: At the Third National Student Conference on Palestine Solidarity, held at Ohio State University, speaker Fatima Ayoub, a student from Johns Hopkins University, praised "the freedom fighters" in "Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Chechnya."
(eyewitness account at www.dafka.org)
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October 27, 2003: The University of Florida student newspaper published a cartoon depicting Jews as the killers of Jesus.
(Associated Press, Oct. 28, 2003)
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October 9, 2003: The Muslim Student Association at the University of Pennsylvania celebrated "Islam Awareness Week," featuring keynote speaker William W. Baker, former chairman of the openly racist and antisemitic Populist Party.
(Front Page, Oct.9, 2003)
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Sept. 20, 2003: Swastikas were painted on the front door of the Hillel House at Rutgers University.
(Phila. Inquirer, Sept. 23, 2000)
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Sept. 19, 2003: Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky was physically assaulted by an anti-Israel student after a speech at Rutgers University.
(Phila. Inquirer, Sept. 23, 2000)
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September 2003: Swastikas and the words "Die, Juden" [Die, Jews] were painted in four lecture rooms in LeConte Hall at UC-Berkeley.
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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August 2003: An Arabic-language instructor, Abbas Kadhim, told students that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - the 19th century Czarist Russian anti-Semitic forgery - is accurate. - UC Berkeley
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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February 2003: A swastika and obscenities were painted on the car of a Jewish student at Syracuse University.
(The Daily Orange, March 31, 2003)
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2003: A Jewish student at UC-Berkeley, Daniel Frankenstein, said he was called a "conservative Zionist bastard" during his campaign for student body president, and one of his campaign workers "was followed around by someone who kept asking her, 'Are you a Jew girl? Frankenstein's a Jew, so isn't everyone who's working for him a Jew?'" He said "it is really socially acceptable to be anti-Semitic on the Berkeley campus."
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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September 2002: At the University of Colorado-Boulder, Jewish students protesting an anti-Israel speaker were threatened by crowds yelling "Nazis!," the words "Jews rot in Hell" were painted on a Jewish fraternity house, and swastikas were daubed on a Sukkah built on the campus. (ADL)
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August 2002: Central Connecticut State University sponsored a week-long "teaching institute" on the Middle East, at which Prof. Norton Mezvinsky "said over and over again that Israel is a terrorist state."
(Jewish Ledger, Aug. 7, 2002)
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May 7, 2002: Leaflets featuring an article by neo-Nazi leader David Duke were distributed at the UC-San Diego campus. (ADL)
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May 7, 2002: At a rally at San Francisco State University, a small group of pro-Israeli students were surrounded by a large mob of anti-Israel students shouting "Hitler didn't finish the job!," "go back to Russia!," and "Get out or we'll kill you!" Posters were placed around campus equating Zionism with racism and Jews with Nazis, and showing pictures of soup cans labeled "Canned Palestinian Children Meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license."
(Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2002)
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April 28, 2002: A rally held on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, featured speakers from the anti-Semitic "We Hold These Truths" group. (ADL)
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April 18, 2002: At the University of Colorado-Boulder, leaflets denouncing Israel and the "Jewish/Zionist Lobby" produced by the neo-Nazi group National Alliance were posted on campus. (ADL)
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April 15, 2002: Al-Talib, the Muslim student magazine at UCLA and Al Kalima, the Muslim student magazine at UC-Irvine, jointly published an extreme anti-Israel booklet titled "Zionism: the Forgotten Apartheid." (ADL)
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April 15, 2002: Muslim student groups at UC- Berkeley and UC-San Diego distributed leaflets featuring fabricated quotations from the Talmud designed to make Jews appear racist. (ADL)
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April 15, 2002: Julio Cesar Pino, an associate professor of history at Kent State University, wrote an article in the campus newspaper The Kent Stater, praising a Palestinian Arab suicide bomber. (ADL)
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April 9, 2002: At UC-Berkeley, a group called Students for Justice in Palestine, held a rally at which one sign read, "Israel lovers are the Nazis of our time." Some of the students spat upon pro-Israel students, and distributed leaflets juxtaposing photographs of Israeli soldiers with photographs of Nazi soldiers herding Jews onto cattle cars. Seventy-nine protesters, forty-one of them students, were arrested for unlawful occupation, resisting arrest, and one instance of assault on a police officer. One of the student protest leaders later publicly charged that Jewish-surnamed donors to the university were pressing the administration to punish the protesters. The administration dropped all of the charges.
(East Bay Express, May 19, 2004)
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April 9, 2002: At an anti-Israel rally at the University of Denver, speakers compared Zionism to Nazism and a member of the Colorado Campaign for Mideast Peace called one of the Jewish students present a "kike." (ADL)
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April 8 , 2002: At the University of Colorado-Boulder, the epithet "Zionazis" and the phrase, "Your Tax Dollars are Paying to Kill Palestinian Children," were painted on sidewalks throughout campus on the first day of Holocaust Awareness Week. (ADL)
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April 6, 2002: At UC-Santa Barbara, a construction site for new dormitories was defaced with the slogans "Anti Zion/Nuke Israel," "God Hates Jews," and "Burn the Torah." (ADL)
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April 5, 2002: At the University of Colorado-Boulder, Hillel House received a slew of harassing and threatening phone calls. (ADL)
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April 1 to 5, 2002: A student vendor at a pro-Arab conference at the University of Michigan sold literature that denied the Holocaust. (ADL)
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April 2002: Lecturing at a Columbia University sit-in, Prof. Joseph Massad, of Columbia's Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, said Israel is "a Jewish supremacist and racist state" and "Every racist state must be destroyed.
(New York Sun, May 4, 2004)
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March 27, 2002: A cement block was used to smash the front glass door of the Hillel Center at UC-Berkeley, and anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti ("F--- the Jews") was painted on it. (ADL)
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