'When will this student government stand up for me?'
As part of the fallout from the shouting down of Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, at the University of California at Irvine on February 8, the UC Irvine student government passed a resolution condemning the 'excessive punishment' of the Muslim students who disrupted the event.The following week, 35 Jewish students showed up at the student government meeting to speak it out. At least if the reactions can be believed, it seems most of the student government had no idea what it was supporting.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Solomonia).
Those kids are quite impressive. And I'm sure they did it without any help from the Israeli government. Because when it hits you in the gut you respond from the gut. And that's far more effective than any canned speeches.
Here's hoping that more people feel that what's going on in Israel today hits them in the gut. Just like these kids did.
Good show, guys.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:22 PM
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Yep. When Jews take a stand and fight the good fight, good things happen.
Let's hope they get the inspiration in Jerusalem to do what the good guys did in Irvine against an injustice!
It's really too bad. Irvine is one of the schools that I'm considering attending...I don't think I can after everything that's recently happened, but I still have a desire to attend just for the opportunity to put some sense into these people.
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