Mere Rhetoric: FrontPage Writeup On UC Irvine: Jihadism Deeply Entrenched. Nice That UCI Hillel Is Finally Noticing.

Yesterday we mocked the UC Irvine Hillel for finally figuring out that there's anti-Semitism on the UCI campus. Some of you, generous souls that you are, asked "but isn't this a step in the right direction?" Well obviously, yes it is. But there's something deeply wrong with Hillel's confused combination of identity politics and interfaith dialogue (thank you, 1970s movements). FrontPageMag has a great writeup on Reut Cohen, who's currently one of the student leaders of the UCI Zionist student group Anteaters for Israel:

Reut Cohen, a third-year student, decided to follow the MSU students outside with her video camera running. She was greeted with laughter and waving from the members of the MSU, who are well aware of the work Cohen does on her blog documenting their organization’s activities. Apparently unconcerned about the fact that he was being filmed, an organizer of the protest proceeded to give an impromptu speech. To shouts of “Takbir” and “Allahu Akbar,” he said:

They have no future. And it’s just a matter of time before the state of Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth…. Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country is with our tongues...

Cohen’s video immediately began circulating on the internet. In an interview with the present author, Cohen said, “MSU’s right to free speech does not require the administration to be silent when MSU calls for the destruction of Israel and threatens students who support her.” Indeed, silence was the initial response of UCI officials.

And we're not just saying it's a great writeup because there are also links to MR buried in the article, although obviously, that helps. It also discusses Reut's blog at length - pointing out that it's one of the better places to keep track of the open jihadism on UCI's campus.

How did it come to this? To students openly - proudly - advocating glorious Intifada and violence after thuggishly screaming down an intellectual? Take equal parts:

(1) Supportive community of radical Muslims who enroll their kids in Little Leagues of teams glorifying jihad, pay for them to go to school nearby, and keep them in the community afterwards.
(2) Administrators who complain about uppity Jewish students in interviews with anti-Semitic hate groups
(3) National Jewish leadership that thinks the way to resolve tensions is to explain to the anti-Semites that Jews are nice

Mix.

References:
* Mere Rhetoric: Orange County Hillel Gets Idea: Maybe There's Anti-Semitism On UC Irvine's Campus [MR]
* UC-Intifada [FrontPageMag]
* reutrcohen.blogspot.com
* UC Irvine Course Description: American Unilateralism Responsible For Islamist Barbarism [MR]
* UC Irvine Gives Interview to Anti-Semitic Hate Group, Wonders Why Everyone Thinks There's Anti-Semitism on Their Campus [MR]
* Two Videos: Daniel Pipes Shouted Down At UC Irvine - UCI Administration Proud Of Insane Muslim Student Union Hate Speech [MR]

Previously:
* Lazy, Left Of Center Jewish Identity Politics Not Working Out
* The Imbecility of Interfaith Dialogue
* Global Jihadists Will Take Any Excuse To Kill Infidels