JERUSALEM POST
Police called to escort pro-Israel activists from UC Irvine campus event
by Lidar Grave-Lazi
May 13, 2017
A group of IDF reservists had to be escorted out of a Students Supporting Israel speaking event by police following a large protest by pro-Palestinian students at the University of California, Irvine, last week. The army veterans were visiting the campus as part of Project Gideon – an initiative of Reservists on Duty, an anti-BDS group in Israel in collaboration with the Lone Soldier Center – which enlists American IDF reservists to fight against BDS on university and college campuses across North America. The five-member delegation – Jewish, Christian and Muslim IDF and National Service veterans representing different sectors and perspectives of Israel society – was on campus to counter Apartheid Week events there…READ MORE