Byron Carlson

Review of Hillel at UC Irvine

A terrible school over run with racist zionists. F...

A terrible school over run with racist zionists. For four straight days this past May, a group of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers called Reservists On Duty harassed UCI students who were displaying a Mock Wall to educate their campus about Israel s concerted violations of international law and Palestinian human rights. The soldiers surveilled, disrupted, and physically assaulted Palestinian students, along with their Latinx, Black, Native and Jewish allies. This occurred in full view of UCI administrators, who refused to intervene.

Rather than protect us from harassment by foreign military agents, UCI is investigating students for disruption because of chanting in reaction to a physical assault on the students during the Q&A session of an event with the soldiers. This just blames the victim and abandons vulnerable students, many of whom have experienced discrimination and brutality at the hands of the same military, explained Forest Agostinelli, a student who participated in the events. The administration failed the students at every turn.