University Of California Students Condemn Anti-Semitism After Controversies

By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Mar 11 (Reuters) – Students during dual University of California campuses have upheld resolutions condemning anti-Semitism after incidents on dual UC campuses, including a portrayal of swastikas on a doors of a Jewish companionship during UC Davis.
The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association unanimously upheld a fortitude on Tuesday amid debate over a tough barbecuing of a Jewish claimant for a tyro bureau during UCLA in that tyro supervision member interviewing her questioned her ability to be just since of her religion.
At UC Berkeley, a tyro parliament upheld a fortitude condemning anti-Semitism late final month, after a Davis and UCLA incidents had occurred.
“This represents an critical step towards an thorough and protected climate, generally in light of new events,” UCLA tyro organisation boss Avinoam Baral pronounced on Wednesday.
The campus incidents, along with fluster in Sacramento after a male in a River Park area arrayed his residence with swastikas imposed on an Israeli flag, have stirred worries in Jewish and polite rights circles in California that anti-Semitism might be on a rise.
On Monday, lawmakers of opposite faiths, several rabbis and a NAACP hold a convene on a stairs of a state capitol in Sacramento condemning anti-Semitism. Several hundred people attended.
Speaking during a rally, Darrell Steinberg, before a tip Democrat in a state senate, called on all UC campuses to adopt resolutions condemning anti-Semitism as good as Islamophobia and racism.
He pronounced he was endangered that legitimate feud with a policies of Israel had veered into acceptance of aged prejudices opposite Jews.
“All too often, anti-Israel feelings offer as a defense for anti-Semitism,” pronounced Steinberg, who is Jewish.
Tensions over Middle East politics are high on campuses in California, where some students and professors have called for divestment from companies doing business with a Israeli military.
Students during UC Davis voted in Jan to support such divestment, and final month, a undergraduate parliament during Stanford upheld a identical resolution.
The UC Berkeley fortitude pronounced “many incidents of anti-Semitism start both inside and outward of a classroom on UC campuses.” It cursed a swastikas sprayed on a wall of a Alpha Epsilon Pi companionship residence during UC Davis and set adult a cabinet to inspect anti-Semitism on campus. (Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

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