LARGEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN AMERICA PROMOTES NOTORIOUSLY ANTI-ISRAEL ILAN PAPPE….
Largest Public University in U.S. Promotes Anti-Israel Speaker on its Campuses
From NCJA Academia and Campus Life Task Force Chairman, Tammi Benjamin. Please circulate this to your lists and take action.
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli Jewish academic who harbors deep animosity towards the Jewish state, has publicly called for its elimination, and engages in activities to harm its citizens, such as a campaign to boycott Israeli academics, which he helped to found. In addition, he openly supports the terrorist organization Hamas and falsely accuses Israel of “crimes against humanity,” including “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.”
He will speak February 20, 22, and 23 on three California University campuses with official sponsorship and funding by University departments and administrative offices. In addition, on each campus the event has been organized and promoted by a faculty member or top university administrator who has publicly expressed his or her hatred of Israel and has participated in many anti-Israel events, including the campaign to boycott Israeli academics.
Although we are concerned about Ilan Pappe’s talk per se, we are more concerned that the talks are organized and promoted by officials and faculty of the California State University system, using the name, resources, and imprimatur of CSU, in order to vilify and harm the Jewish state and its supporters. In this way, taxpayers like us are subsidizing the promotion of hateful indoctrination in our nation’s largest public university.
Please click here to view a letter the AMCHA Initiative has sent to university administrators.
You can also watch the following AMCHA video to learn more about CSU’s support for Ilan Pappe’s speaking tour by clicking here.
Please consider sending your own respectful letter to one or more of the following individuals, asking them to ensure that official university sponsorship and funding is withdrawn from Ilan Pappe’s talks at the three CSU campuses:
- CSU Fresno President John Welty: johnw@csufresno.edu
- Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong: presidentsoffice@calpoly.edu
- CSU Northridge Interim President Harold Hellenbrand:harry.hellenbrand@csun.edu
- CSU Chancellor Charles Reed: creed@calstate.edu
- CSU Trustees: lhernandez@calstate.edu
- California State Senator Tom Berryhill (Fresno): senator.berryhill@senate.ca.gov
- California State Assemblyman Henry T. Perea (Fresno):Assemblymember.Perea@assembly.ca.gov
- California State Assemblywoman Linda Halderman (Fresno): assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov
- California State Senator Sam Blakeslee (San Luis Obispo):senator.blakeslee@senate.ca.gov
- California State Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian (San Luis Obispo): assemblymember.achadjian@assembly.ca.gov
- California State Senator Alex Padilla (Northridge): Senator.Padilla@sen.ca.gov
- California State Assemblyman Bob Blumenfeld (Northridge): assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov
Here is the full list of emails:
lhernandez@calstate.edu, senator.berryhill@senate.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Perea@assembly.ca.gov, assemblymember.halderman@assembly.ca.gov, senator.blakeslee@senate.ca.gov, assemblymember.achadjian@assembly.ca.gov, Senator.Padilla@sen.ca.gov, assemblymember.blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov
If you do send a letter, please copy or blind-copy us at: administrator@AMCHAinitiative.org
Thank you!
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Tammi@AMCHAinitiative.orgLeila Beckwith
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Leila@AMCHAinitiative.org
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Tammi@AMCHAinitiative.orgLeila Beckwith
Co-founder the AMCHA Initiative
Leila@AMCHAinitiative.org
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