A pro-Israel group wants the University of California, Santa Cruz, to stop hosting lectures it says promote anti-Semitism... StandWithUs, has argued that a March conference - and at least a dozen other talks and seminars since 2001 - created a hostile environment for Jewish students and violated a state law prohibiting promotion of partisan politics.

In a letter to acting Chancellor George Blumenthal, the group cited a March 15 conference called "Alternative Histories Within and Beyond Zionism." During the lecture, speakers said Israeli policies toward Palestinians amounted to genocide and one speaker used the phrase "Judeo-Nazis."... University of California attorney Carole Rossi wrote in an e-mail this week that the campus events don't violate any rules.