Israeli student attacked by Palestinians in Italy

[shira]

Student in Italian university threatened by Palestinian students, one of whom was armed. Police fail to apprehend suspects. Israeli: They shouted 'slaughter the Jews'

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An Israeli student at the University of Genoa in Italy was harassed and threatened by Palestinian students last Tuesday, only to be ignored by the police.

Assaf, a 26-year-old Israeli architecture student, was eating at the cafeteria when Ibrahim Haji, a student from Gaza, came and began taunting him.

"He came towards me, punched me and said 'why are you looking at me?' I told him I wasn't looking at him, and asked him to let me eat in peace," Assaf said. "A minute later he was back, swinging a fork, and called me in front of everyone to come outside while cursing Israel and declaring his intention to kill.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3984097,00.html

[shira]

1. A 'breakthrough' in fighting anti-Semitism on campus

After a six-year Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) campaign, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an important policy benefiting Jewish students in elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools. In a letter issued on October 26, 2010, OCR declared that it will enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) to protect Jewish students from harassment, intimidation and discrimination at federally funded schools.

This is a breakthrough. Until this announcement, OCR wouldn't enforce Title VI to protect Jewish students, leaving them without the same civil rights protections that have been afforded to other ethnic and racial groups since Title VI's enactment in 1964.

It was OCR's policy denying Jews the protection of Title VI that largely accounted for the agency's decision to dismiss the complaint that the (ZOA) filed in 2004 on behalf of Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). UCI students had been subjected to years of anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation, described in detail in the ZOA's 11-page complaint to OCR. Campus programs -- with titles such as "A World Without Israel" and "Israel: The 4th Reich" -- routinely demonized Jews and Israel. Campus speakers condoned and even advocated terrorism against Israeli Jews. One frequently-invited speaker compared Jews to Satan, called them baby-killers, and referred to them as "the new Nazis." The verbal bigotry escalated into violence. Students were physically threatened and assaulted. A Holocaust memorial was destroyed, and swastikas defaced campus property.

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In Naples, Florida, middle schoolers held "kick a Jew" day in November 2009. Two students came to school that day wearing Adolph Hitler moustaches. The superintendent's response was as offensive as the event itself. Shockingly, he said, "These kids kicked a bunch of kids. What's the real crime here?" All schools will now feel a greater imperative to respond to these horrific incidents if they know that they could face consequences from OCR, including a loss of federal funding.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/11/a_stronger_stance_against_anti.html

[NaturalHigh]

2. Disgusting.

I will never understand anti-Semitism.

[Barack_America]

3. Attacks by Palestinians on Israelis, or by Israelis on Palestinians are deplorable...

...whether in the Mid East or elsewhere.

[alanquatermass]

5. Right on, Barack! They are both EQUALLY deplorable!

nt

[proteus_lives]

4. Horrible.

How the Italians acted was so cowardly.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Revolting.

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[azurnoir]

8. I must disagree with that the way Jews are treated

world wide should not IMO have anything to with what Israel does, just as the way Muslims are treated should not have anything to do with al-Qaida or Hamas, group guilt is collective punishment and wrong

[ProgressiveMajority]

9. It shouldn't, but it does

I'm not saying its right that Jews around the world suffer when Israel does wrongs, just that it's a fact that they do.

[LeftishBrit]

10. Absolutely!