{"id":8087,"date":"2015-02-04T03:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2015-02-04T03:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:26:42","slug":"hideous-demonstration-erupts-at-uc-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8087","title":{"rendered":"Hideous demonstration erupts at UC-Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>How to describe what took place on a California university campus.<\/p>\n<p>Hideous? Ghastly? Unconscionable? Reprehensible?<\/p>\n<p>All of the above &#8230; and then some?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, let&#8217;s go for it.<\/p>\n<p>A group of anti-Israel students this past Thursday disrupted a University of California-Davis rally by Jewish students by shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar!,&#8221; an Arabic phrase that means &#8220;God is great.&#8221; The pro-Israel students sought to protest a student government decision to divest from Israel as part of a student movement designed to protest Israeli policies in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/02\/03\/pro-palestinian-students-heckle-cal-davis-opponents-with-cries-allahu-akbar\/<\/p>\n<p>It got worse.<\/p>\n<p>Some unknown vandals spray-painted swastikas on a fraternity house. <em>Swastikas! <\/em>The very symbol of the Nazi regime that exterminated an estimated 6 million Jews prior to and during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Some anti-Israel student posted a note on a Facebook page about Hamas and Sharia law taking over the UC-Davis campus. Whatever. Actually, Sharia law hasn&#8217;t taken over anything &#8212; let alone a major public university campus. As for Hamas &#8212; the notorious terrorist organization that runs the government in Gaza &#8212; it has been identified for what it is: a cabal of killers.<\/p>\n<p>But the point here is that this kind of monstrous behavior shouldn&#8217;t be tolerated anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The anger expressed on the campus is preposterous in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Free speech is worth protecting &#8212; but it ought at least to be civil.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to describe what took place on a California university campus. Hideous? Ghastly? Unconscionable? Reprehensible? All of the above &#8230; and then some? Sure, let&#8217;s go for it. A group of anti-Israel students this past Thursday disrupted a University of California-Davis rally by Jewish students by shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar!,&#8221; an Arabic phrase that means &#8220;God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hideous demonstration erupts at UC-Davis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1813,1868,2049,2151,2369,3231,4247,4482,4995,5302],"class_list":["post-8087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-free-speech","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-holocaust","tag-israel","tag-nazis","tag-sharia-law","tag-swastikas","tag-uc-davis","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}