UCI Jewish Group Web Site Hacked


Yesterday, the Anteaters for Israel, a Jewish student group at UC-Irvine had its website hacked into. In opening the site, Arabic music blares out. At this point, perpetrators have not been identified.

The incident is ironic since Anteaters for Israel is presently a fairly liberal group that has not been confrontational vis-a-vis the Muslim Student Union.

Also yesterday, a member of the Jewish/Israel advocacy group, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), sent an e-mail to Vice Chancellor, Manuel Gomez, who replied;

“……I find this act reprehensible. Upon investigation it turns out that both the AFI and the Hacker’s website are off campus. Since it does not involve a UCI server, we have no jurisdiction, and there is little we can do. I have informed our police department, and our Dean of Students also alerted AFI….”

This is the standard response from UCI officials (”there is little we can do”).

When a female Jewish student (Reut Cohen) had her own camera shoved in her face by an MSU member during an MSU event at UCI…..”there was little they could do.”

When (last May), a female Jewish student was followed back to her car at night by MSU male students (on the UCI) campus after filming a Malik Ali speech, surrounded and harassed in front of at least one witness and campus police…..”there was little they could do.”

Whem last May after a day-time speech by Malik Ali on the UCI campus, a black Christian preacher was manhnadled by MSU students in front of dozens of witnesses, deans and campus police……”there was little that we could do.”

When last May during the MSU week-long event, Mohammed Al-Asi was spouting his usual venom, a group of high school students touring campus was standing directly behind him waiting to get on a bus, they had to be exposed to this hate speech. There were deans and campus police present, but…….”there was little we could do.”

When, during that same week, MSU erected a mock wall depicting the wall Israel had erected to keep out suicide bombers, there was a drawing of Ariel Sharon with hooked nose, big lips and a sneering look on his face-in the old Nazi style of Der Stuermer. That depiction stayed there on campus all week long, but….”there was little we could do.”

So little, indeed.

gary fouse
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