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USC Muslim Student Union Slips Into Open Anti-Semitism

Apparently not-so-subtle anti-Semitic jokes are a little too tame for USC's Muslim Student Union listserv. In response to some USC Jewish groups' Holocaust memorials (and, let's remember, Muslim leaders were not exactly innocent in instigating the Holocaust), members of the MSU's listserv have posted some of the following charming contributions. All misspellings and grammatical cleverness is in the originals. Names and email addresses are withheld to protect the stupid:

holocust schmolocost.....
that whole thing drives me nuts.
there arent that many holicost surviviers.
most of those guys havent experienced anything -- except possibly excess. its a tool the zionists use... but to be honest wonder how effective it is these days.

And:

Just thought id contribute its fun reading about the holohoax. it probably happened but 6mil is a lot i think the figure was much smaller and yes i think its possible to fabricate such a story. the jews are masters at this and congrats to them for being able to do so. not only do they claim sole bearers to the "anti-semetic" crimes, but they are able to live of reparations forever. smart idea dont you think?

The Muslim Student Union is, of course, a university-sanctioned organization whose elected representatives represent USC Muslims to the University and to the community. How could such an environment emerge? On UC Irvine's campus, the administration has told campus Jewish leaders that they are not to refer to themselves as Zionists because that will "undermine dialogue" with Muslims on campus. Put aside the absurd "blame the victim" sensibility that underlies this idea that Jews should be forced to dialogue on terms that deny their right to self-defense or pride - it seems the height of absurdity to believe that the kind of vicious hatred displayed above (prevalent in pro-Palestinian activism across American college campuses) turns on linguistic niceties.

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