Israel-Bashing CSU Prof to Fight Anti-Semitism?

by Winfield Myers  •  Dec 11, 2012 at 10:42 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/12/israel-bashing-csu-prof-to-fight-anti-semitism

Manzar Foroohar

How should universities combat rising anti-Semitism on campus? Journalist Lee Kaplan, writing for Campus Watch, reports today in FrontPage Magazine that the California State University system has turned to a harsh critic of Israel to lead the effort:

Does appointing an advocate of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to chair a committee aimed at combating anti-Semitism in the California State University system make sense? That's exactly what happened in the case of Manzar Foroohar, a well-known anti-Israel activist who teaches modern Middle Eastern and Latin American history at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The Iranian immigrant was placed in charge of an Academic Senate 2012/2013 CSU committee charged with implementing the "Governor's Task Force on Tolerance and Anti-Semitism Training," an effort that originated in 2010 under former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Foroohar does indeed have extensive experience in training students and faculty members—in how to delegitimize and demonize the state of Israel, an activity that hardly promotes an environment of "tolerance" for pro-Israel CSU students.

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