How One Southern California Jewish Federation Undermines Student Zionism at a State University

by Jerry Gordon (June 2015)

Imagine a well-paid Jewish Federation head bullying Jewish students and faculty on a major California university campus about demonstrating support for Israel, all while currying favor with a myopic university Administration which was funding anti-Israel, and some might say anti-Semitic, campus programs with Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Palestinian student groups. Further, many of the leaders of this student Zionist group are committed Jews from Israeli family backgrounds whose forbearers were expelled from Middle East Muslim countries, others came from Ashkenazi backgrounds. Unbelievably, they all experienced abusive treatment from the Jewish Federation and Federation-employed campus Hillel directors, all while the campus Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters attacked Jewish students and interrupted  several noted speakers resulting in at least one instance of prosecution and convictions for disrupting a public event. You’d say that was Orwellian fiction. However, these actions and episodes have been going on for a decade.  more>>>