For the second time in 14 months, some Jewish community activists, along with UC alumni and professors, are asking University of California administrators to take more forceful action against what they contend is anti-Semitism on UC campuses and harassment of Jewish students by anti-Israel protesters.
In July 2010, leaders of a dozen prominent Jewish American organizations sent similar complaints to UC President Mark G. Yudof. This week, a new letter to Yudof contended that issues of campus anti-Semitism had not been resolved and urged him “to address this problem effectively and promptly.”
The letter was signed by about 5,000 Jewish lay and religious leaders, parents of UC students and alumni and is more of a grassroots effort than the previous one, according to Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer in Hebrew. “We are losing patience,” said Rossman-Benjamin, whose allegation of a hostile environment for Jews at UC Santa Cruz is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
No comments:
Post a Comment