Steps taken by the University of California are not sufficient to battle rampant anti-Semitism, UC regents stated Thursday, after UC leaders released a statement about intolerance that did not specifically address hatred against Jews.
“To completely disregard people who brought a problem to your attention, I think is frankly insulting,” Regent Norman Pattiz stated at a debate over the statement at UC Irvine.
The statement of intolerance was released in lieu of an official statement against anti-Semitism, local media reports. Campus Jewish groups and regents had campaigned for the UC board to adopt the official US State Department definition of anti-Semitism as “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and denying Israel the right to exist.”
Regents are livid over the toned-down statement, however – and at least one, Regent Dick Blum, the husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), have vowed to “remain critical” of UC unless further action is taken.
During the hearing, at least ten students took the stand anonymously to recount anti-Semitic incidents on university campuses.
Among them: graffiti in March proclaiming “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber”; similar graffiti and swastikas found on a different university Hillel Houses in January; the statement “Hitler did nothing wrong” found etched into a cafeteria table; and the now-infamous interrogation of a Jewish student board candidate at UCLA in February over her background.
In February, a landmark study by Trinity College revealed that 54% of Jewish American college students experienced anti-Semitism on campus in 2014 – and 10% specified that discrimination had been levied against them in student organizations.
UCLA was named that same week as one of the “Top Ten” colleges in the US for anti-Semitic activity by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative think tank based in Southern California.
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Fully half the reported incidents of “Swastikas” and “Kill the Jews” are perpetrated by Jews for political purposes.
If you insist on equating “Jewish(ness)” with Israel, don’t complain when people hate you for what Israel does.
Thanks Sabba for this posting which raises an issue of huge and fundamental importance. You preface the posting with a famous and well-worn quote (from the Gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 32): “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”. The King James translation is:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”. We’ll come back to that quote after considering the issue at hand.
Taking the Israel National News article at face value and inferring basic facts from that article, it seems that:
1. some Jewish people made an official complaint to the University of California about “rampant anti-Semitism” at the University of California.
2. the article tells us that “UC regents” are complaining about “UC leaders”.
3. the article does not explain the difference between “UC regents” and “UC leaders”.
4. A Wikipedia article entitled “Regents of the University of California” explains that “The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California”.
5. Hmm. We can infer therefore that the “UC regents” are the “UC leaders”.
6. So the “UC regents” are complaining about themselves. No, that can’t be the truth. It must be that some “UC regents” are complaining about other “UC regents” who are not complying with the wishes of the complainant “UC regents”.
7. We can infer that the complainant “UC regents” must be a minority of the “UC Regents”.
8. Two of the complainant “UC Regents” are quoted in the article: “Regent Norman Pattiz” and “Regent Dick Blum, the husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)”.
9. So the truth seems to be that some Jewish people have complained about alleged “rampant anti-Semitism” at the University of California, and at least two Jewish UC Regents are complaining that the UC official response condemning intolerance generally was regarded by Regent Norman Pattiz as “frankly insulting” of the Jewish complainants whom he strangely regarded as being “completely disregard(ed)” by the statement generally condemning intolerance. That could be taken as an extreme example of ethnocentricity.
10. The Israel National News article did not specify the numbers of Jews killed or injured at the University of California. Nor was the issue of false-flag anti-Semitic acts addressed.
11. We can infer that some Jewish UC Regents regard some of their fellow UC Regents as anti-Semitic and would like to rectify that situation. The Israel National News article did not address this aspect of the situation or suggest what steps might be taken to set things right at the UC.
Enough of the UC, I’ll address the Biblical quote in a separate comment.
So to John 8:32:
“And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”. The King James translation is:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.
Disclaimer: I am not a follower of any religion, but I am prepared to provide unqualified support and advocacy of universal wisdom when I come across it. I was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and tried very hard to believe in my mid to late teens.
John 8:32 is a commandment, not of the “Thou shall not” variety, but of the “Thou shall” kind. “Thou shall” is an imperative! It is not suggesting that you may seek and find the truth, but that you MUST seek and do your utmost to find the truth.
We’ve covered the first half of this double commandment. You are under a sacred obligation to seek and find the facts in any situation you face, no matter how difficult those facts are to confront.
What about the second half of this double commandment – “the truth shall make you free”?
Make no mistake: the obligation is on you, not “the truth”. If the facts that you find demand that you take action as a matter of conscience, you are under an obligation to take appropriate action.
These COMMANDS are very DEMANDING.
If you take them seriously you are being commanded to enter through the “strait gate” of truth and follow the narrow and difficult path of honesty which “few there be that find it”. Pardon me for cherry picking from Matthew 7:13-14 and paraphrasing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that most Christians in our time have chosen to enter the wide gate and follow the broad way without even noticing the narrow Christian gate.
Some honest and humble food (with no sweeteners or additives of any kind) for thought for earnest Christians to chew on.
The Jews have been working hard for millenniums to make themselves hated all over the world, there is no doubt about it. With their crimes they keep committing, they are only watering the seeds of their own destruction.
Fully half the reported incidents of “Swastikas” and “Kill the Jews” are perpetrated by Jews for political purposes.
If you insist on equating “Jewish(ness)” with Israel, don’t complain when people hate you for what Israel does.
Thanks Sabba for this posting which raises an issue of huge and fundamental importance. You preface the posting with a famous and well-worn quote (from the Gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 32): “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”. The King James translation is:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”. We’ll come back to that quote after considering the issue at hand.
Taking the Israel National News article at face value and inferring basic facts from that article, it seems that:
1. some Jewish people made an official complaint to the University of California about “rampant anti-Semitism” at the University of California.
2. the article tells us that “UC regents” are complaining about “UC leaders”.
3. the article does not explain the difference between “UC regents” and “UC leaders”.
4. A Wikipedia article entitled “Regents of the University of California” explains that “The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California”.
5. Hmm. We can infer therefore that the “UC regents” are the “UC leaders”.
6. So the “UC regents” are complaining about themselves. No, that can’t be the truth. It must be that some “UC regents” are complaining about other “UC regents” who are not complying with the wishes of the complainant “UC regents”.
7. We can infer that the complainant “UC regents” must be a minority of the “UC Regents”.
8. Two of the complainant “UC Regents” are quoted in the article: “Regent Norman Pattiz” and “Regent Dick Blum, the husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)”.
9. So the truth seems to be that some Jewish people have complained about alleged “rampant anti-Semitism” at the University of California, and at least two Jewish UC Regents are complaining that the UC official response condemning intolerance generally was regarded by Regent Norman Pattiz as “frankly insulting” of the Jewish complainants whom he strangely regarded as being “completely disregard(ed)” by the statement generally condemning intolerance. That could be taken as an extreme example of ethnocentricity.
10. The Israel National News article did not specify the numbers of Jews killed or injured at the University of California. Nor was the issue of false-flag anti-Semitic acts addressed.
11. We can infer that some Jewish UC Regents regard some of their fellow UC Regents as anti-Semitic and would like to rectify that situation. The Israel National News article did not address this aspect of the situation or suggest what steps might be taken to set things right at the UC.
Enough of the UC, I’ll address the Biblical quote in a separate comment.
So to John 8:32:
“And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”. The King James translation is:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.
Disclaimer: I am not a follower of any religion, but I am prepared to provide unqualified support and advocacy of universal wisdom when I come across it. I was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and tried very hard to believe in my mid to late teens.
John 8:32 is a commandment, not of the “Thou shall not” variety, but of the “Thou shall” kind. “Thou shall” is an imperative! It is not suggesting that you may seek and find the truth, but that you MUST seek and do your utmost to find the truth.
We’ve covered the first half of this double commandment. You are under a sacred obligation to seek and find the facts in any situation you face, no matter how difficult those facts are to confront.
What about the second half of this double commandment – “the truth shall make you free”?
Make no mistake: the obligation is on you, not “the truth”. If the facts that you find demand that you take action as a matter of conscience, you are under an obligation to take appropriate action.
These COMMANDS are very DEMANDING.
If you take them seriously you are being commanded to enter through the “strait gate” of truth and follow the narrow and difficult path of honesty which “few there be that find it”. Pardon me for cherry picking from Matthew 7:13-14 and paraphrasing.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that most Christians in our time have chosen to enter the wide gate and follow the broad way without even noticing the narrow Christian gate.
Some honest and humble food (with no sweeteners or additives of any kind) for thought for earnest Christians to chew on.
The Jews have been working hard for millenniums to make themselves hated all over the world, there is no doubt about it. With their crimes they keep committing, they are only watering the seeds of their own destruction.
yes that exactely what they are doing!