{"id":51981,"date":"2017-05-09T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51981"},"modified":"2017-05-07T06:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T04:16:01","slug":"09-05-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51981","title":{"rendered":"Community Leaders for Failing to Confront \u2018Institutional Antisemitism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>San Francisco State University Slammed by Faculty, Community Leaders for Failing to Confront \u2018Institutional Antisemitism\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Rachel Frommer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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San Francisco State University. Photo: Wikipedia.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

San Francisco State University (SFSU) was condemned repeatedly this week by Jewish faculty members and community leaders for failing to confront \u201cinstitutional antisemitism,\u201d according to reporting by a local paper, the J Weekly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

SFSU President Leslie Wong was accused in a series of letters sent by the campus Hillel of being complacent in the face of an increasingly \u201chostile\u201d campus climate toward Jews, including failing to reject student groups\u2019 anti-normalization policy of not engaging with Zionists or those perceived as pro-Israel, which has left many Jewish students feeling isolated on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

A main focus of the Jewish community\u2019s complaints have been the handling by SFSU generally, and Wong specifically, of an April 2016 event featuring Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, which was quickly interrupted by protests. Last month, a frustrated Barkat canceled a speaking engagement on campus that was meant to be a redo of the previous year\u2019s event because, according to the mayor, the administration and staff provided no support for the program. He said SFSU hastily threw the event together without reaching out to Jewish student groups to help organize the event and failed to properly publicize it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wong was accused of having extended the invitation as a political stunt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though SFSU launched an investigation into the 2016 Barkat protest, no students were punished. Faculty told J Weekly they were disappointed by the lack of results produced by the 11-month inquiry, and that new protocols introduced to prevent shout-downs of speakers have not been properly implemented. Wong created two new posts last summer in response to the Barkat debacle \u2014 a director of human relations and of equity programs \u2014 but both positions remain empty.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to J Weekly, in correspondence between Wong and Jewish leaders about the Barkat matter, the president was \u201csympathetic to Jewish concerns\u201d but \u201cresented the amount of time they took up.\u201d In minutes of a June 2016 meeting provided by SFSU Jewish studies professor Marc Dollinger, Wong also suggested that Hillel was to blame for the disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a February 2017 incident currently being investigated, Hillel claims it was surreptitiously and deliberately excluded from a campus fair on human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday, the school\u2019s Hillel director, Ollie Benn, wrote in the paper that SFSU \u201ckeeps the organized Jewish campus community at arm\u2019s-length, excludes our students from participating in campus events, allows speakers we invite to be shouted down and refuses to publicly stand against intolerance when it\u2019s directed at the Jewish community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He demanded that the university \u201cno longer allow the abrogation of Jewish students\u2019 rights to speak, listen and participate in campus life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a J Weekly editorial, Wong was called on to \u201cstep up and lead\u201d the campus in the face of a \u201clitany of [anti-Jewish] abuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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