SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
September 14, 2015

Dear Board of Regents,

We are writing to express our extreme disappointment and outrage over the proposed Statement of Principles Against Intolerance that you will be considering at your upcoming meeting. As you know, in the wake of unprecedented and alarming antisemitic activity on UC campuses, virtually all of it linked to virulent anti-Israel expression, there has been an outpouring of concern for the safety and well-being of Jewish students, along with strong communal support for the University’s adoption of the U.S. State Department definition of antisemitism.  More than 80 Jewish student leaders, 17 Jewish student groups, 50 religious, civil rights, advocacy and legal organizations, 35 preeminent scholars of contemporary anti-Semitism, thousands of UC students, alumni, parents, faculty and donors, and dozens of California Jewish community leaders have all urged you to use the State Department definition to properly identify and educate the campus community about the forms of antisemitism affecting Jewish students on UC campuses. READ LETTER

The above letter was signed by many leading organizations such as Alpha Epsilon Pi, CAMERA, EMET, Jerusalem U, Simon Wiesenthal Center, StandWithUs and Zionist Organization of America.