{"id":5081,"date":"2013-01-30T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2013-01-31T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:02:34","slug":"pro-israel-group-claims-palestinians-abused-jews-at-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/pro-israel-group-claims-palestinians-abused-jews-at-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel group claims Palestinians abused Jews at protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (JTA) &#8212; The pro-Israel group AMCHA Initiative claimed that Jewish students at the University of California, Davis were abused and threatened at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus. In a letter sent Monday to UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, AMCHA Initiative co-founders Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin alleged that demonstrators carrying &#8220;death to Zionism&#8221; placards occupied a public building on Nov. 19 and harassed pro-Israel students. The letter also was CCed to University of California President Mark Yudof and others.<\/p>\n<p>AMCHA\u00a0Initiative released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xIFpoVkQk0c&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> showing protesters comparing Zionism with Nazism and telling supporters of Israel to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply concerned about the virulent and hate-filled actions taking place on the UC Davis campus as a result of students&#8217; religion and beliefs,&#8221; Beckwith and Rossman-Benjamin, faculty members at the University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Santa Cruz, wrote to Katehi.<\/p>\n<p>According to the two, several UC Davis faculty members were present at the event but did not intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The university said Monday it was investigating the claims.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, several universities in the University of California system have become a battleground between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 10 pro-Palestinian students at\u00a0the University of California,\u00a0Irvine were found guilty of disrupting a lecture by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren on campus and sentenced to community service.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Pro-Israel%20group%20claims%20Palestinians%20abused%20Jews%20at%20protest\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1873,8790,1245,8788,380,1874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}