UC Davis “anti-Zionists” vandalized a Sukka on the campus.
Student Programs and Activities Center representatives reported a hate crime yesterday, as graffiti was found defacing a small hut on the Quad being used for a Jewish holiday.
The booth, called a Sukkot or Sukkos, was set up on the east Quad as part of a weeklong celebration of one of three Jewish holidays known collectively as Shalosh Regalim.
The graffiti was discovered by SPAC and then reported to several organizations on campus, including the UC Davis Police Department and Hillel. Mike Amerikaner, program director of Hillel, said that the vandalism is unrelated to the holiday, though it made reference to Israel.
“This is a religious structure that has nothing to do with Israel,” he said.
No, it doesn’t. Except for the fact that Israel is the homeland of the Jews. Can we stop pretending that denying Israel the right to nationhood isn’t anti-Semitic now, or do we still have to pretend that people who want an end to the Jewish State aren’t anti-Semites? At least in thought, if not in deed, as someone else—who got fired for that and other things—said.
The Chabad rabbi is in shock over the attack. That’s because he doesn’t know UC Davis.
Rabbi Shmary Brownstein, co-director of the Chabad House with wife Sorele Brownstein, said in an interview on Sunday that a Hillel official notified him of the vandalism on Friday, the last day of Sukkot. In more than four years on campus, he said, this is the first time he’s had to deal with someone singling out a sukkah for vandalism.
“This is a sukkah,†he stated in amazement. “The existence of it is a religious requirement and not a political statement in any way.â€
It doesn’t matter. The anti-Zionists crossed the line into anti-Semitism a long, long time ago. UC Davis shows that. And apparently, so does San Jose State.
Another California sukkah, the one outside of S. Jose State University’s Hillel of Silicon Valley, was found torched last week.
Because what’s a Jewish holiday without a little religious-symbol burning, hm? Sure, make a statement about those nasty Israelis. Burn down your college sukkah. That’ll show those “zionists.”
There are pictures at both links. Disgusting. But remember, they keep telling us it isn’t anti-Semitism.
Except that it is.
Vandalzing a religious symbol is not a protest against “occupation.” It is the vandalization of a Jewish religious symbol.
Oh….
So hitler wasn’t an anti-Semite. He just didn’t like Jewish holidays! And only did those things to stop them!
I guess history DID get it wrong…..
How can “intellectuals” be allowed to get away with making statements like that?
It’s almost like:
“Mr president, are you an anti-Semite?”
“Well, um… It depends on what your definition of anti-Semite is.”
Meryl we all know that it IS anti-Semitism !!
Spot on.
In fact there is probably no relationship between being Zionist and having a Sukkah for the holiday. MOST “Zionists” most definitely do not put up Sukkahs for the holiday.
No Meryl, you are completely off base… anti semitism is despicable and they are to be confronted at every turn.
Anti zionism is toootally more nuanced and anti zionists dont want to kill any Jews, they just want them to die passively.
Dont you see the difference?
I am a UC Davis student and have been doing some research into the strong anti-semitic problem at this campus.
In 2001 the UC Davis Hillel was SET ON FIRE. There is a history of strong anti-semitic and/or anti-zionist speakers coming to the UC Davis campus.
However the upcoming speaker being brought by “Students for Justice and Peace” takes the cake: Ward Churchill.
There’s no fighting this. The UC system statewide has this problem. Look up Irvine where a muslim student union member encourages the slaughter of Israelis. See other schools where swastikas are painted on the doors of Jewish students.
The only group I have seen on the UC Davis campaigning against these religious attacks, aside from Jewish Student Groups, are the College Republicans. You can imagine how well their support is received in the People’s Republic of California.