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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This seems pertinent to the UC law professor Dan
Simmons op-ed in the Sacramento Bee on "civil discourse" that was just
forwarded to us by Cheryl. See in particular the third-fourth paragraphs
of the letter, articulating a double standard in the use of the term
"incivility."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=piyachatterjee@yahoo.com href="mailto:piyachatterjee@yahoo.com">piya
chatterjee</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=amalia@ucr.edu
href="mailto:amalia@ucr.edu">amalia@ucr.edu</A> ; <A title=ctushabe@ucr.edu
href="mailto:ctushabe@ucr.edu">ctushabe@ucr.edu</A> ; <A title=chikakot@ucr.edu
href="mailto:chikakot@ucr.edu">chikakot@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=sherine.hafez@ucr.edu
href="mailto:sherine.hafez@ucr.edu">sherine.hafez@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=alicia@ucr.edu href="mailto:alicia@ucr.edu">alicia@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=tamara.ho@ucr.edu href="mailto:tamara.ho@ucr.edu">tamara.ho@ucr.edu</A> ;
<A title=piyachatterjee@yahoo.com href="mailto:piyachatterjee@yahoo.com">Piya
Chatterjee</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=kking@ucrac1.ucr.edu
href="mailto:kking@ucrac1.ucr.edu">Kris King</A> ; <A
title=christine.gailey@ucr.edu
href="mailto:christine.gailey@ucr.edu">christine.gailey@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=caroline.tushabe@ucr.edu href="mailto:caroline.tushabe@ucr.edu">Caroline
Tushabe</A> ; <A title=janew@ucr.edu href="mailto:janew@ucr.edu">Jane Ward</A> ;
<A title=mwaller@mail.ucr.edu href="mailto:mwaller@mail.ucr.edu">Marguerite
Waller</A> ; <A title=tracy.fisher@ucr.edu
href="mailto:tracy.fisher@ucr.edu">Tracy Fisher</A> ; <A
title=dylanrodriguez@hotmail.com href="mailto:dylanrodriguez@hotmail.com">Dylan
Rodriguez</A> ; <A title=jodi.kim@ucr.edu
href="mailto:jodi.kim@ucr.edu">jodi.kim@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=setsu.shigematsu@ucr.edu href="mailto:setsu.shigematsu@ucr.edu">Setsu
Shigematsu</A> ; <A title=ray.kea@ucr.edu
href="mailto:ray.kea@ucr.edu">ray.kea@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=nigel.hughes@ucr.edu href="mailto:nigel.hughes@ucr.edu">Nigel Hughes</A> ;
<A title=mary.droser@ucr.edu href="mailto:mary.droser@ucr.edu">Mary Droser</A> ;
<A title=crowderr@prodigy.net href="mailto:crowderr@prodigy.net">Ralph L
Crowder</A> ; <A title=ellenr@ucr.edu href="mailto:ellenr@ucr.edu">Ellen
Reese</A> ; <A title=chris.abani@gmail.com
href="mailto:chris.abani@gmail.com">chris abani</A> ; <A
title=chriscd@mail.ucr.edu href="mailto:chriscd@mail.ucr.edu">Chris
Chase-Dunn</A> ; <A title=UCmobilize@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:UCmobilize@yahoogroups.com">UC Mobilize</A> ; <A
title=cf7516@gmail.com href="mailto:cf7516@gmail.com">Carole Fabricant</A> ; <A
title=devra.weber@ucr.edu href="mailto:devra.weber@ucr.edu">Devra Weber</A> ; <A
title=caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu
href="mailto:caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu">Carole-Anne Tyler</A> ; <A
title=proy@ucdavis.edu href="mailto:proy@ucdavis.edu">parama roy</A> ; <A
title=pryer@ucr.edu href="mailto:pryer@ucr.edu">Paul Ryer</A> ; <A
title=tobym@ucr.edu href="mailto:tobym@ucr.edu">Toby Miller</A> ; <A
title=cschwenk@ucr.edu href="mailto:cschwenk@ucr.edu">Christina Schwenkel</A> ;
<A title=derek.fay@ucr.edu href="mailto:derek.fay@ucr.edu">derek.fay@ucr.edu</A>
; <A title=marta.savigliano@ucr.edu
href="mailto:marta.savigliano@ucr.edu">marta.savigliano@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=priyas@ucr.edu href="mailto:priyas@ucr.edu">Priya Srinivasan</A> ; <A
title=jhughes@ucr.edu href="mailto:jhughes@ucr.edu">Jennifer Hughes</A> ; <A
title=vp.franklin@ucr.edu href="mailto:vp.franklin@ucr.edu">VP Franklin</A> ; <A
title=vorris.nunley@ucr.edu href="mailto:vorris.nunley@ucr.edu">Vorris
Nunley</A> ; <A title=keith.harris@ucr.edu
href="mailto:keith.harris@ucr.edu">keith.harris@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=traise.yamamoto@ucr.edu href="mailto:traise.yamamoto@ucr.edu">Traise
Yamamoto</A> ; <A title=lan.duong@ucr.edu href="mailto:lan.duong@ucr.edu">Lan
Duong</A> ; <A title=ruhi.khan@ucr.edu href="mailto:ruhi.khan@ucr.edu">Ruhi
Khan</A> ; <A title=rickerby@ucr.edu href="mailto:rickerby@ucr.edu">Rickerby
Hinds</A> ; <A title=maurya.simon@ucr.edu
href="mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu">maurya.simon@ucr.edu</A> ; <A
title=michrr@ucr.edu href="mailto:michrr@ucr.edu">Michelle Raheja</A> ; <A
title=godrej@ucr.edu href="mailto:godrej@ucr.edu">Farah Godrej</A> ; <A
title=karthick@ucr.edu href="mailto:karthick@ucr.edu">Karthick Ramakrishnan</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:12 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [UCmobilize] please consider endorsement of this letter in
support of Irvine-11/hate-crime:free speech etc</DIV></DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Dear UCR Colleagues:<BR><BR>We hope you will consider
endorsing this letter which will be going to UCR's Chancellor White and
Vice Chancellor James Sandoval--joining all the other powerful statements
from TAO-UCR and the Ethnic Studies Department. <BR><BR>We received
endorsement from many people nationally and internationally and we hope
that we can get more UCR representation as well. The appeal here is
for "cross-solidarity" --and hopefully all these collective texts of
support will help the students.<BR><BR>The version to the UCR Chancellor
will go out on Friday so if you want your names on it, <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)">please send your names and
affiliations to <A
href="mailto:ucantiracism@yahoo.com">ucantiracism@<WBR>yahoo.com</A></SPAN><BR>.<BR><BR>The
version to the UCI Chancellor and to UCOP will go out next week--so we can
collect more signatures. <BR><BR>Thank you for your consideration,<BR>Piya
Chatterjee<BR>with<BR>David Lloyd<BR>Sunaina Maira<BR>Majid
Shihade<BR>Steve
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<P class=MsoNormal>March 10, 2010</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dear Chancellor White:<U><O></O></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We write to you with great urgency and concern about
the UCR (and UCI) students who are facing serious disciplinary action for
their protest at UC-Irvine on March 8, 2010.<SPAN> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We write to you from across the UC-system,<SPAN>
</SPAN>the nation,<SPAN> </SPAN>and internationally. We write to you
as faculty of distinguished universities and colleges (including your
own), as graduate and undergraduate students, <SPAN> </SPAN>and as
members of organizations working on human rights and civil rights issues
both in the <ST1><ST1>United States</ST1></ST1> and abroad. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We begin by first <SPAN> </SPAN>by drawing
out<SPAN> </SPAN>the spurious connection made between despicable
acts of anti-black racism at UC-San Diego <SPAN> </SPAN>and on other
campuses in the system,<SPAN> </SPAN>and the acts of<SPAN>
</SPAN>verbal protest by Palestinian and Muslim<SPAN>
</SPAN>students protesting the speech of the <ST1><ST1>Israel</ST1></ST1>
Ambassador at UC-Irvine on February 8, 2010. That this connection was made
in a public communiqué sent by the President of the
<ST1><ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>California</ST1></ST1> and all ten
Chancellors is deeply troubling.<SPAN> </SPAN>(<U>Please see the
statement and analysis which spells out our position in greater
detail</U>).</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We believe that the conflation of these two incidents
at the highest levels of the UC-administration is dangerous in what it
reveals about the double standards with which this
administration<SPAN> </SPAN>addresses <I>its</I> <I>own
</I>institutional policies around racism <I>and </I>community-based acts
of racism.<SPAN> </SPAN><B><I>The use of the word “incivility”
cannot mask this double standard.<O></O></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In that light, we ask you to re-consider the punitive
action being leveled at the UCR students who acted well within the
ambit<SPAN> </SPAN>“free speech,”<SPAN> </SPAN>and who
exercised their right to protest on February 8, 2010. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>We strongly believe that sanctions against these
students will undermine<SPAN> </SPAN>any efforts by UC-policy makers
and administrators to bring about social and racial justice in the wake of
these terrible events.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Yours Sincerely, </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Majid Shihade, Faculty, <ST1>Lahore</ST1> Insititute of
Management Sciences, <ST1><ST1>Lahore</ST1>, <ST1>Pakistan</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Leila Hananineh, Faculty, Chemistry.
<ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>Jordan</ST1>,
<ST1><ST1>Amman</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sunaina Maira, Faculty, Asian American Studies,
<ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>California</ST1> at
<ST1><ST1>Davis</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>David Lloyd, Faculty, English,
<ST1><ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>Southern California</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Steve Salaita, Faculty, English, Virginia Tech</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Piya Chatterjee, Faculty, Women’s Studies University of
<ST1>California</ST1> at <ST1><ST1>Riverside</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Andrea Smith, Faculty, Media and Cultural Studies,
<ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>California</ST1> at
<ST1><ST1>Riverside</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Margo Okazawa-Rey, Faculty Emeritus, <ST1><ST1>San
Francisco</ST1> <ST1>State</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Carol Tushabe, Women’s Studies, <ST1>University</ST1>
of <ST1>California</ST1> at <ST1><ST1>Riverside</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Marguerite Waller, Faculty, Women’s Studies and
Comparative Literature, UC-Riverside</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nadine Naber, Faculty, American Studies,
<ST1><ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>Michigan</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ramzi El-khater, Al Awda Palestine Right to Return
Coalition</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lara Deeb, Faculty, Anthropology,
<ST1><ST1>Scripps</ST1> <ST1>College</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sherna Berger Gluck, Emerita Faculty,
<ST1><ST1>CSU-Long</ST1> <ST1>Beach</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Lisa Rofel, Faculty, Anthropology, UC-Santa Cruz</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>James Fujii, Faculty, East Asian Languages and
Literature, UC-Irvine</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Rei Tarada, Faculty, Comparative Literature,
UC-Irvine</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Gianpalo Baiocchi, Faculty, <ST1><ST1>Brown</ST1>
<ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Chela Delgado, Graduate <ST1><ST1>School</ST1> of
<ST1>Education</ST1></ST1>, UC-Berkeley</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Yael Korin, <ST1><ST1>David</ST1> <ST1>Geffen</ST1>
<ST1>School</ST1></ST1> of Medicine, UCLA</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Chikako Takeshita, Faculty, Women’s Studies,
UC-Riverside</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nancy Naples, Faculty, Sociology and Women’s Studies,
<ST1><ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>Connecticut</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><ST1>Alliance</ST1> for Justice in the Middle East,
<ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The <ST1>Harvard</ST1> <ST1>College</ST1>
<ST1>Palestine</ST1> Solidarity Committee, <ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1>
<ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Hammad Shere, President, Muslim Students Association,
UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Muslim Students Association, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Maya Ezzedine, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Deborah Al-Najjar, American Studies and Ethnicity,
<ST1><ST1>University</ST1> of <ST1>Southern California</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sriya Shrestha, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><ST1>Alliance</ST1> for Justice in the Middle East,
<ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The <ST1>Harvard</ST1> <ST1>College</ST1>
<ST1>Palestine</ST1> Solidarity Committee, <ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1>
<ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Michael Letwin, Labor for
<ST1><ST1>Palestine</ST1></ST1>. Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid
Attorneys, </P>
<P
class=MsoNormal><SPAN>
</SPAN>UAW Local 2325</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Ana Sanchez, MD. <ST1><ST1>UCSD</ST1>
<ST1>School</ST1></ST1> of Medicine</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Barbara Mair, <ST1>Community</ST1> <ST1>Unitarian</ST1>
<ST1>Church</ST1>, <ST1><ST1>White Plains</ST1>, <ST1>NY</ST1></ST1>. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Susette Min, Faculty, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Basem Khaddar, <ST1><ST1>Chappaqua</ST1>,
<ST1>NY</ST1></ST1>. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Pete Klosterman, <ST1><ST1>Piedmont</ST1>,
<ST1>CA</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Jessi Quizr, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Madyllyne Vasquez, Community and Religious Development,
UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Mo Torres, Chican/o Studies and History, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Alison Tanner, ASUCR Senator, UC Davis, CCC Peace
Education</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Abrham Castillo-Ruiz, ASUCR Senator, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Geoffery Wildanger, UC Davis.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>US Palestinian Community Network, (USPCN)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Adrienne Hurley, Faculty, East Asian Studies,
<ST1><ST1>McGill University</ST1>, <ST1>Canada</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Molly Talcott, Faculty, Sociology,
<ST1>California</ST1> <ST1>State</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1>-<ST1><ST1>Los
Angeles</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dunya Alwan, Birthright Unplugged, <ST1><ST1>San
Francisco</ST1>, <ST1>CA</ST1></ST1>. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Laura Myerson, <ST1><ST1>Cortlandt Manor</ST1>,
<ST1>NY</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Barbara Barnes, Gender and Women’s Studies,
UC-Berkeley</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>John McGillin, <ST1>Fairfield</ST1> <ST1>County</ST1>
and <ST1><ST1>Westchester County</ST1>, <ST1>NY</ST1></ST1>. NY.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sarah Emmet, Psychology, UC <ST1><ST1>Santa
Cruz</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nada Khader, Executive Director, WESPAC Foundation. <A
href="http://www.wespac.org/">www.wespac.org</A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>?Mona Baker, Faculty, <ST1><ST1>University of
Manchester</ST1>, <ST1>UK</ST1></ST1>. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Emi Kane, Member, National Collective, INCITE: Women of
Color Against Violence</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Fatin Abbas, Comparative Literature,
<ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Chiaki Nishijima, <ST1><ST1>Harvard</ST1>
<ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Jamie Baker, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Tanya McNeil, Sociology, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Terri Ginsberg, International Council of Middle Eastern
Studies</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Susan Curtiss, Faculty, Linguistics, UCLA</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Michael Eisencher, Faculty, <ST1>Laney</ST1>
<ST1>College</ST1>, <ST1><ST1>Oakland</ST1>, <ST1>CA</ST1></ST1>.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><ST1>Lawrence</ST1> Davidson, History,
<ST1><ST1>Westchester University</ST1>, <ST1>PA</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Alexander Satanvosky, UC Davis <ST1><ST1>School</ST1>
of <ST1>Law</ST1></ST1>, 2011</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Nataila Deeb-Sossa, Sociology, UC Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>James C. Faris, Faculty Emiritus, <ST1><ST1>University
of Connecticut</ST1>, <ST1>CT.</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Jess Ghanam, Faculty, Psychiatry and Global Health
Sciences, UC-San Francisco</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sam Noumoff, <ST1><ST1>McGill University</ST1>,
<ST1>Canada</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dorinda Moreno, Former Faculty, <ST1><ST1>San
Francisco</ST1> <ST1>State</ST1> <ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sushil Jacob,<SPAN> </SPAN>Boalt
<ST1><ST1>School</ST1> of <ST1>Law</ST1></ST1>, UC-Berkeley</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Zahra Billoo, UC Hastings <ST1><ST1>College</ST1> of
<ST1>Law</ST1></ST1>, 2009</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Abla Harara, Plant and Microbial Biology,
UC-Berkeley</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Selisa Romero, ASUCD Senator, UC-Davis.<BR>Marchez L.
Shurn, McNair Scholars Program, UC-Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Sharon Luk, USC</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Laura Mitchel, UC-Davis</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Dennis Kortheuer, <ST1><ST1>CSU-Long</ST1>
<ST1>Beach</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Scott Campbell, <ST1><ST1>New York</ST1>
<ST1>University</ST1></ST1></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Suzanne Ross, Co-Chair, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Coalition</P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Robert H. Stiver, <ST1><ST1>Pearl City</ST1>,
<ST1>HI</ST1></ST1>. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><U>Statement of Solidarity with African American and
Palestinian Students in the UC System<O></O></U></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>In their statement to the <ST1><ST1><SPAN
class=yshortcuts>University</SPAN></ST1><SPAN class=yshortcuts> of
<ST1>California</ST1></SPAN></ST1><SPAN class=yshortcuts>
community</SPAN>, President Yudof and the Chancellors of the UC campuses
express their “deep disturbance” at recent events on a few UC
campuses. They condemn “all acts of racism, intolerance and
incivility.” Although they do not name the specific events to which
they allude it is clear that they mean the disruption of Israeli
Ambassador <SPAN class=yshortcuts>Michael Oren</SPAN>’s speech at <SPAN
class=yshortcuts>Irvine</SPAN> on February 8th 2010, and the recent racist
actions at UCSD, including both a fraternity’s “Compton Cookout” event,
encouraging students to come dressed as racist caricatures, a comment made
on <SPAN class=yshortcuts>student television</SPAN> calling black students
“ungrateful n—-s,” and the hanging of a noose in the library.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The conflation of these two incidents is an
extraordinary and implicitly racist act in and of itself. The
students who interrupted Ambassador Oren’s speech were upholding the most
honorable traditions of freedom of speech and exercising their right of
non-violent protest at the representative of a nation that has been
charged with war crimes by the United Nations' special investigator,
Richard Goldstone, <SPAN class=yshortcuts>Amnesty International</SPAN> and
<SPAN class=yshortcuts>Human Rights Watch</SPAN>. Such charges
<ST1><ST1><SPAN class=yshortcuts>Israel</SPAN></ST1></ST1> has dismissed
out of hand and without serious investigation.
<ST1><ST1>Israel</ST1></ST1> is equally the object of more UNGA
condemnations for human rights violations than any other country and has
been condemned for practices amounting to apartheid by the South African
Human Sciences Research Council and by many respected international
lawyers and statesmen. The students’ interruptions were directed at
these facts and at the ongoing genocide of the <SPAN
class=yshortcuts>Palestinian people</SPAN>. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><O></O></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>They caused no threat or harm to the speaker or the
audience. Indeed, they left the hall quietly after delivering their
prepared remarks. One may or may not agree that the charges are
accurate, but the protesters certainly made no reference to the race of
the speaker and were at no point anti-semitic in tone or content. In
this country, and on UC’s own campuses, effective public criticism of
<ST1><ST1>Israel</ST1></ST1> has largely been hampered by political
interests and orchestrated campaigns of opprobrium. This situation
leaves few avenues for protest of its actions or of the one-sided
presentations of its representatives that would <I>not</I> be deemed
disruptive. Indeed, it is almost always the case that events organized on
campuses to present Palestinian viewpoints are required to include
counter-speakers or are subject to strident and threatening criticism when
they do not. <BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The current threat of draconian sanctions against these
students, sanctions that have not been applied to those who have
frequently disrupted Muslim speakers or pro-Palestinian speakers, and the
imputation of guilt by association against the Muslim Student Union,
suggest a remarkably biased application of disciplinary
procedures. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The incidents at UCSD, on the other hand, were
expressly racist, directed at one racial group in terms that have
historically been used to humiliate and discriminate against African
Americans and deploying symbols that have been associated with the worst
and most terrorizing racial violence. That these acts of explicit
and intimidating racism were met only with a teach-in on racism until
<SPAN class=yshortcuts>student action</SPAN> forced suspension of only the
student responsible for the most egregious act, the hanging of a noose,
speaks directly to the unbalanced application of disciplinary
procedures. <BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The UC’s unequal response to these and other incidents
at the UC campuses sends a very strong message to students and the wider
community. It suggests that racism against <SPAN
class=yshortcuts>African American</SPAN> and Muslim students is tolerable,
a mere breach of courtesy, while political protest of a state that has
been condemned by impartial observers for war crimes and practices
amounting to apartheid is unacceptable and subject to the severest
sanctions. One has only to recall President Yudof’s public
condemnation of a panel of experts on <ST1>Israel</ST1>’s assault on
<ST1><ST1>Gaza</ST1></ST1> held at UCLA in January 2009 to recognize that
such double standards are deeply ingrained in the attitudes of UC’s
administration.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The racist incidents at <SPAN class=yshortcuts>UC San
Diego</SPAN> took place on a campus where the enrolment of <SPAN
class=yshortcuts>African American students</SPAN> has declined to 1.3% of
the student body and in a state-wide university where the total number of
African American students amounts to a mere 3.34%. These numbers are
not accidental, but arise from a long-standing failure on the part of the
administration to engage in desegregation of
<ST1><ST1>California</ST1></ST1>’s higher education. The replacement
of the language of desegregation with “affirmative action” and then
“excellence and diversity” has consistently sent the message that it is
normal for white students to be at the UCs, whereas Black and Latino
students must be there by special permission. The language of
“ungrateful n—-s” merely vocalizes in a more explicit and ugly way the
attitude that is in fact materialized in the UCs admissions
policies. In face of such facts, the attempt to confront such acts
of racist intimidation with an appeal to the civilized “principles and
values of this University” becomes risible.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal>By the same token, the imputation that protest against
the state of Israel, which maintains a highly segregated society and which
has placed all possible obstacles in the way of Palestinian education, is
tantamount to anti-semitism constitutes no less a double standard. The
accusation pretends to promote tolerance but in fact discriminates against
the feelings, opinions and right to expression not only of Muslim students
but equally of many who are outraged by the actions of a state and do not
conflate them with an ethnic or religious group. That the Muslim
Student Union at UCI is coming under sustained attack both from within and
from without the university again merely vocalizes a set of prejudices
that the UC’s own administrative actions and statements implicitly
endorse. <BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal> We condemn this double standard on the part of
the administration of the UC system. Rather than condemn a
handful of students on the prejudicial grounds of “incivility”, the UC’s
administration must face up to its own delinquencies on the matter of
racial justice and equal access to higher education. <BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The <ST1><ST1><SPAN
class=yshortcuts>University</SPAN></ST1><SPAN class=yshortcuts> of
<ST1>California</ST1></SPAN></ST1> as a whole must be held accountable as
an institution in whose academic cultures of<SPAN> </SPAN>racism is
erupting precisely because it has not adequately responded to calls for
racial and social justice. </P>
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