Though the Muslim Student Union tries to mask themselves as an innocent religious and cultural organization, their advocacy for terror groups proves otherwise.

Their praise for Hamas is especially alarming. Not only does Hamas fundamentally reject peace talks, but their charter calls for the elimination of Israel and pledges for "the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." In seeking this ominous ideal, the group is responsible for over 350 terror attacks, and the deaths of 500 innocent people.

Below are honorary photos from the MSU's mock Israeli wall:

Gary Fouse also attended the Baltzer lecture:

Today, the Muslim Student Union continued their "Palestinian Holocaust" Week at UCI. Today's featured speaker at noon was Anna Balzer, a young Jewish-American activist, who has traveled often to Israel and the Palestinian-occupied territories. She is a Palestinian sympathizer, and is associated with the International Women's Peace Service.

I should state that Ms Balzer does not come across as a "bomb thrower" (no pun intended.) Her presentation argued that Palestinians are being treated unjustly by Israel in the name of maintaining a Jewish state. She did not blast the United States, unlike many of the other MSU speakers. She is opposed to Israel as a "Jewish state".

Academic fraud isn't the only problem with the MSU at UC Irvine. When the MSU isn't showcasing disgraced academics like Ilan Pappe or Norman Finkelstein, they offer the podium to young so called civil rights activists, who double shift as terror sympathizers. Anna Baltzer is no exception.

Watch the video, disturbingly amusing (and perplexing) are her answers regarding the boycott of products and services supportive of Israel. See what you can make out of her explanation regarding the sacrifice of text messaging and the applause line that follows:

In the next video, Baltzer compares the Palestinian issue to the 1960's Civil Rights movement:

And don't be fooled by her supposed advocacy of a peaceful Palestinian resistance. In a recent blog post, she compared the employment of terror tactics as a necessity that will be judged more favorably once the jihadists establish political legitimacy. After all she argues ,even Martin Luther King, Jr. was viewed as a radical in his time:

 Some...

You remember UCI's Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez? You remember time he equated one person's hate speech, as another's education? Or the time he condoned the exclusion Jewish students from a tolerance rally?

This time Daniel Tedford from the Daily Pilot has Gomez on record applauding MSU speakers for curbing the tide of an otherwise deteriorating national debate:

"The deterioration in discourse nationally and what we see in some of these speakers is not conducive," said UCI Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Manuel Gomez. "It is just rhetoric coming back and forth at each other. My hope would be to get authentic dialogues going with discussion revolving around differences, not to agreement, but to understand different perspectives."

Below is a photo of two Jewish students prohibited from practicing their right to free speech. While Muhammad al-Asi was giving his lecture on Monday, the two stood behind him with a sign titled "Caution Hate Speech Zone Ahead" and one with an antisemitic quote from al-Asi. Though both kept more than a comfortable distance from the MSU's speaker, administrators apparently wanted to protect al-Asi from any disrepute. I don't blame campus police, as they were just dutifully following orders from administrators.

Pictured below are more dubious explanations from administrators Sally Peterson and Edgar Dormitorio:

Despite being buried at a very remote location, David Horowitz addressed a decent size crowd on the dangers of totalitarian Islam and the vile behavior that emanates from Muslim Student Associations on University campuses.  Horowitz maintained that while the MSA masks themselves as a religious and cultural organization, they are largely a radical political network with roots dating back to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. He especially targeted UC Irvine, calling it "America's worst university" in terms of radical Islamic organizations.

Horowitz also addressed the MSA as campus supporters of genocide and unapologetically  compared Islamic radicals as compatible to 1930's fascism.

This is a global movement for genocide. Hitler called this the final solution.

Horowitz maintained that the main hindrance to solving the problem is the hypocritical and cowardly nature of progressive university faculty. More ironically, administrators who coddle such groups that run in opposition to their purportedly "liberal" values.

For Horowitz, the solution is exposing these administrators. Gary Fouse has the scoop of the explanation during the Q and A:

During the question and answer session, I pointed out to Horowitz that 99% of the students at UCI have nothing to do with the...

H/T: LGF

Those courageous "Freedom Fighters" are at it again. Gaza rocket hits Israel city of Ashkelon:

JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, wounding at least three people and leaving two trapped under rubble, officials said.
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Rescue service spokesman Eli Bean said two babies were among the wounded. Witnesses told Israeli radio stations that the rocket caused considerable damage and Bean said at least two people were trapped.

The rocket attack came as President Bush wrapped up talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Israeli leader said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza militants.

Two people were killed in recent days in attacks by Palestinian militants on Israeli communities outside Gaza.

The homemade rockets militants usually fire at Israel do not have enough range to reach Ashkelon. Militants use longer-range rockets to hit the city of 100,000, 9 miles from the Gaza-Israel border.

I described al-Asi's speech in my previous post:

Yesterday he gave his routine stump speech against Jewish immigration and settlement in Israel, rebuking the race as filthy hoodlums who took the lowly ghetto lifestyle they learned in Europe and brought it to an otherwise pristine Arab world.

Here is a transcript of significant quotes from al-Asi's speech:

*As the years go by you are going to feel more cornered in the nation state ghetto you
constructed.

*Just like you (Jews) didn't learn from exile, you didn't learn from ghetto life.

*You left the ghettos of Europe, there were no ghettos to speak about in Muslim Countries. You left those ghettos and came in the fashion that you did, with all the bloodshed that went with it and still continues.

*You came to the holy land, which you desecrated and blasphemed with every decision that you made and still are making and then you realize that you are in a territory of hostilities around you. These hostilities...

I don't normally post articles from members of the Muslim Student Union, but this op-ed in New University by Mariam Moustafa deserves some negative attention. Read and notice her shrill and intolerant tone towards Jews. This yet another example of how the MSU is a bigoted organization that does not spark legitimate debate about Israel's policies, but despises and nit picks any cultural nuance of Jewish life in the Middle East:

Happy birthday, Israel! You turn 60 years-old this week and my, have you grown! You went from a humble 7 percent to a whopping 88 percent of Palestinian land (including chunks of the West Bank and Gaza, which are now known as occupied Palestinian territories). Here at UC Irvine, several organizations (such as Hillel) put on iFest, a week-long celebration of your birthday. They had many cultural attractions for students to experience. One of the attractions advertised was henna, which actually dates back to ancient Egypt and India, not Israel. That's okay, though, because they also had yummy shawarma sandwiches, which, now that I think about it, date back to Turkey and Syria. All right, well, have no fear because they did provide something that actually...

Gary Fouse attended the Al-Asi lecture yesterday. Here are his thoughts:

 Hate Fest at UC-Irvine-Mohammed Al-Asi by Gary Fouse

After an upbeat week-long celebration of Israel's 60th birthday last week, the Muslim Student Union now takes over the stage at UC-Irvine this week with their usual invited speakers who come and preach hate. Today, I witnessed the speech of "Imam" Mohammed Al-Asi as he talked for an hour about the "racist, Zionist State of Israel".

Let me set the scene for you. The event took place outside near the flagpoles. The Muslim Student Union boys were all decked out in paramilitary-looking olive green T-shirts with Palestinian-type scarves. On the front of the shirts was a tank with some reference to "Resistance". On the back was a quotation from Martin Luther King (an apostle of non-violence who would never have countenanced terror and suicide bombings.) During the speech, about 5 of them flanked the speaker, trying to look menacing in the fashion of Louis Farrakhan's Fruit of Islam. (Personal note to MSU: dressing up like Jihadist fighters will not win many hearts and minds in this country.)

Meanwhile several of the university deans and their assistant deans...

Day 2 of the MSU's hate week came to no avail. Since it was raining, turnout was low, and as usual Muhammad al-Asi was hearing crickets. Yesterday he gave his routine stump speech against Jewish immigration and settlement in Israel, rebuking the race as filthy hoodlums who took the lowly ghetto lifestyle they learned in Europe and brought it to an otherwise pristine Arab world.


Like last year's speakers, al-Asi felt right at home as the MSU built him a suitable antisemitic and militant environment:

Below is some AK toting terrorism as freedom fighting:


Using the same rehashed material from last year, the MSU reminds us  again that they are willing to invoke standard Jewish blood libel, that is the stereotypical scapegoating and depiction of Jews as indecent and inhumane cannibals....

Dear Community Members:

In the upcoming week the pro-Israeli Students of the University of California, Irvine will witness acts of hatred from fellow students. Ringroad, a main road on UCI's campus, will have a makeshift wall which will have pictures, articles, and a bloodied Israeli flag that blames Israel and Jews for a so-called Palestinian Holocaust in Israel.

As Jewish community members, you are an important source of support to us students on campus. Thus, we believe it is pertinent that you are informed of the event taking place from May 12 until May 16th that the Muslim Student Union has decided to name, "Never Again? The Palestinian Holocaust."

We appreciate your help throughout the year and relate to your devout support for Israel and its causes. This year, while we disagree with the MSU theme, we on campus have agreed to be respectful and peaceful in accordance to Jewish values.

With this in mind, we hope that our response is seen as appropriate and that we can expect a shared view with you.

Thank you.

Isaac Yerushalmi
President
Anteaters for Israel

Michelle Eshaghian
Co-President
Hillel: Jewish Student Union

Billy Ravel
Co-President

When Hezbollah isn't terrorizing Israel, they are besieging their native land of Lebanon. Walid Phares from Counter Terrorism Blog has "Lebanon's 300:"

While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon. Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described "Divine soldiers" has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon's "Khomeinist Janjaweeds" have conquered already half of the Middle East's cultural capital, Beirut. As I have reported before, Hezbollah has occupied West Beirut and has since sent its storm troops in multiple directions to resume the blitz.

And don't count out Iran's involvement:

This huge force, by Lebanon's standards, was joined by an undetermined number of real Iranian Guards, shipped from Tehran to man sophisticated weapons offered by the Khamanei regime as a gift to topple the democratically...

He will be at the flag polls at noon.

Courtesy of a friend:

"...We have a psychosis in the Jewish community that is unable to co-exist equally and brotherly with other human beings. You can take a Jew out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the Jew, and this has been demonstrated time and time again in Occupied Palestine. And now they have American diplomats and politicians and decision makers and strategists in their pocket....

Imam Muhammed Al-Asi
UC Irvine
February 21, 2001

"If the only thing the Israelis and their mentors, and their sponsors, and their superiors in Washington DC, are going to understand is the use of force, then that's the language we're going to communicate with, we're going to use force, and whatever was taken by force can only be retrieved by force."
Imam Muhammed Al Asi
UC Irvine
May 15, 2002

"It is about time we begin to open our eyes, see for ourselves and identify this cancerous presence of the Israeli interest that has taken over the American body politic."
Imam Muhammed Al Asi
"Israel Awareness Week"
UC Irvine May 18, 2005

Al-Asi...

H/T: Reut Cohen

The photo below was featured on the cover of the July 1999 issue of UCLA's MSA Magazine al-Tahib. It comes to no surprise that along with radicals Malcom X and Ayatollah Khomeini, it feature's no other than the ominous Osama bin-Laden.

And no, Bin Laden's image on the cover isn't content neutral as Chancellor Drake likes to say. It represents the content of the lifestyle feature inside. Below is an excerpt from the text of the article illustrating admiration:

When we hear someone refer to the great Mujahid (someone who struggles in Allah's cause) Osama bin Laden as a "terrorist," we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter, someone who has forsaken wealth and power to fight in Allah's cause and speak out against oppressors. We take these stances only to please Allah.

Now since this article was written in 1999, radical Islamists in the United States didn't have to carry Bin Laden's post 9/11 baggage as they do today. Hence, it is convenient for the more radical...

The odious Dean of Student Services, Sally Peterson is once again targeting conservative and Jewish students.

Myself, along with a couple of other students took painstaking efforts to post flyers around campus to publicize both the Nonie Darwish and David Horowitz lectures. Following two separate rounds of flyering, Dean Peterson ordered them removed from all premises. In the meantime, POSTERS ADVERTISING MSU HATE WEEK REMAIN UN-DEFILED.


Update: Commenter Brett Nemeth shares a similar account of Peterson as a student in the late 1980's:

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H/T: LGF

The Organization of Islamic Conference is launching an initiative to try to mollify fears of radical Islam. It's called the Islamophobia Observatory, and the OIC boasts the success of the project based on the "intellectual" way Muslims conducted themselves during the Danish cartoon kerfuffle.

How very enlightening!:


 

My late mother used to exclaim, "if everyone who claims to be a Holocaust survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?" - Norman G. Finkelstein

Watch the video, Finkelstein clearly miffed after being embarrassed in front of sympathetic crowd of washed up CAIR officials and imports from the local mosque. (Video Courtesy of the UCI Muslim Student Union)