Two days later, University of California President Mark G. On March 6, vandals at UC Riverside scrawled “terrorist” on an Israeli flag belonging to a Jewish student group. One protester accused an invited speaker of being a rapist and murderer. Hecklers also disrupted speakers at an event last month titled StandWithUs’ “Israeli Soldiers Stories.” at UC Davis. Ten of the 11 were convicted of misdemeanors. In February 2010, 11 Muslim protesters were arrested after they repeatedly interrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren in an organized effort while he was delivering a speech at UC Irvine. The incident was the latest in a string of polarizing events at UC campuses. I vigorously deny all allegations and I have called for a University investigation to clear my name.” We have a video and signed testimonial that I did not verbally attack any student. “After my address to the AS council where I read a letter from 40 Nobel Laureates against, I sat in the audience and then left the room with a colleague professor. “I never spoke to any of the pro-divestment students,” Dubnov wrote in an e-mail from Italy last weekend, where he was traveling. No formal complaints have been lodged against him, and Dubnov says the allegations are fantasy. Multiple students were getting attacked.”ĭubnov is the only faculty member who has been identified. If you see something wrong, you need to say something about it. “The only thing I’m condemning is the actions of the faculty and staff members on our campus. He was at the marathon meeting and insists he witnessed divestment supporters being “verbally attacked and assaulted.” Josue Castellon is the co-chair of the university’s Student Affirmative Action Committee, which has sided with the pro-Palestinian group. Some divestment supporters have accused Dubnov of verbally assaulting and harassing pro-divestment students outside the forum. Israel supporters are particularly incensed over accusations against music professor Shlomo Dubnov, the UCSD chapter president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a grass-roots organization of scholars who promote civil discussion and defend Israel’s right to exist.
They also note that they come largely from divestment sponsor Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that referred to UCSD as “J-Street U UCSD” after the advisory vote. “I only see it getting worse.”Īfter the student government group voted down the divestment resolution, students criticizing the Israeli government said their opponents had been both verbally and physically assaulted them.īackers of Israel say the allegations are not only without merit but also border on libel. “My concern is over where this is heading across the entire UC,” said Samer Naji, a senior and the vice president of external affairs for UCSD’s Associated Students. 29 at UC San Diego, called to discuss divestment from companies doing business with the Israeli military. That’s what people on both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian debate on college campuses are saying following an emotional seven-hour hearing on Feb.
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