Investigation opened into harassment of Jews at University of California

The US Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into charges that officials on the University of California’s Irvine campus have been turning a blind eye to intimidation and harassment of Jewish students for the last four years. In a letter of complaint, the Zionist Organization of America has listed incident after incident in which allegedly Muslim and Arab student groups and extremist Muslim religious speakers vilified Jews and Israel. The university is the latest American campus to be hit with allegations of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist harassment. Jewish students wearing T-shirts with a Star of David or pro-Israel slogans have been insulted and threatened with violence, said Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice in New York, who drew up the complaint. In the latest incident, in early February, Muslim cleric Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali talked before a campus audience for an hour about “the apartheid state of Israel” and its “Nazi behavior” as well as “American imperialism” and the “Zionist-controlled media.”