Mere Rhetoric: UC Irvine Hillel Pulls Investigation Of Its Own Failure To Combat Campus Anti-Semitism

Idiots:

The Hillel Foundation of Orange County has called off its investigation into alleged anti-Semitism at UC Irvine and has instead directed its resources to promoting Jewish life on campus, an official said Tuesday. The foundation began investigating allegations at UCI in February after a number of incidents on campus, including Muslim students disturbing a lecture by Daniel Pipes, a Middle East scholar and defender of Israel.
“We wanted to focus more on the campus and improving Jewish life at the university,” said Jeffrey Rips, the executive director of Hillel Foundation of Orange County. The investigation was canceled over the summer, said Rips, who declined to say what, if anything, Hillel’s inquiry turned up or why the foundation’s leaders did not announce it... In 2003, a Holocaust memorial was vandalized, and a display criticizing Zionism was burned down in 2004.

Their students are vicious anti-Semites who bring even more vicious anti-Semites to UCI's campus:

Most of them are just cheap thugs, but not a few of them are very very likely out and out terrorists.

If their administrators are not anti-Semitic then they're too spectacularly obtuse to be in academia: when they're not giving friendly interviews to hate groups who publish their sound bites alongside threats of anti-Semitic violence, they're defending anti-Semitic hate speech as "another person's opinion". The school newspaper is practically a showcase of anti-Semitism invective.

We do like how Hillel says they don't have the resources to check whether there's anti-Semitism on the campus. We did this post in 15 minutes using Google site search - imagine what someone could do with, oh we dunno, a whole day! No wonder Jewish students are literally transferring out of UCI. And no wonder the Hillel has stopped investigating the utter failure of Jeffrey Rips to protect the interests of Jewish kids on campus.

On the plus side, just think of how much easier "improving Jewish life at the university" will be when there are only a dozen or so Jews living there (h/t: Jeffery).

References:
* Jewish org. nixes UCI probe [Daily Pilot]
* As Far As Smirking Anti-Semitism Goes, UC Irvine Muslims Have Really Outdone Themselves [MR]
* UC Irvine Muslim Student Union To Conclude Anti-Israel Week By Declaring "UC Intifada" For Palestine [Video] [MR]
* Amir Abdel Malik Ali at UC Irvine 10/05/2006 [standwithus / YouTube]
* Two Videos: Daniel Pipes Shouted Down At UC Irvine - UCI Administration Proud Of Insane Muslim Student Union Hate Speech [MR]
* Terrrorists Hiding in Plain View at UC Irvine [MR]
* UC Irvine Gives Interview to Anti-Semitic Hate Group, Wonders Why Everyone Thinks There's Anti-Semitism on Their Campus [MR]
* More Nazi Imagery on UC Irvine's Campus. Administration on Hate Speech: "One Person's Hate Speech is Another Person's Education". [MR]
* Logic, Anti-Semitism On Display In UC Irvine Newspaper. Except For the Logic Part. [MR]