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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Leila Beckwith</title>
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		<title>The Olive Tree Initiative: A Fig Leaf for Anti-Semitism?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leila Beckwith]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will the University of California ensure a non-hostile environment for Jewish students?  ]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/">American Thinker</a>.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;"><span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">A fig leaf is a device intended to conceal something regarded as shameful or indecent. At the University of California at Irvine (UCI), the administration uses the </span><a href="http://www.socsci.uci.edu/%7Ecpb/Olive%20Tree%20Initiative.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Olive Tree Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (OTI) to provide an illusory cover for the administration&#8217;s lack of will to address the existence of anti-Semitism on its campus; its lack of resoluteness to condemn anti-Semitism when it occurs; its laxity about enforcing University of California policies to combat anti-Semitism. But for those with a discerning eye, the fig leaf actually reveals the shame it was intended to conceal.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">As described in &#8220;</span><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/a-blind-eye-to-campus-anti-semitism--15510?page=all"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Blind Eye to Campus Anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">&#8221; by Kenneth Marcus, September 2010,</span></strong></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">&#8230;during the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism was unleashed with a vengeance    in Irvine, California. There, on the campus of the University of California at Irvine, Jewish students were physically and verbally harassed, threatened, shoved, stalked, and targeted by rock-throwing groups and individuals. Jewish property was defaced with swastikas, and a Holocaust memorial was vandalized. Signs were posted on campus showing a Star of David dripping with blood. Jews &#8230;were called &#8220;dirty Jew&#8221; and &#8220;fucking Jew,&#8221; told to &#8220;go back to Russia&#8221; and &#8220;burn in hell. &#8220;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many of the incidents during the period described by Marcus began in an anti-Israel guise.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">In 2007 in an effort to ameliorate this intolerable situation, a small group of students of different ethnic and religious identities formed the Olive Tree Initiative.   Its stated goal was &#8220;to promote dialogue and discussion regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict.&#8221;  The Initiative became an integral part of the UCI Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, with a salaried director, and faculty from the School of Social Sciences.  Under OTI auspices, there have been 3 trips to Israel and the West Bank, as well as more than 70 forums on and off campus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">To continue reading this article, </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/the_olive_tree_initiative_a_fi.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">click here</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></p>
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