The question stung Rachel Beyda, who, like her inquisitors, was hoping to make her campus – and world – a better place.
“Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community,” one member of the Undergraduate Students Association Council said to Beyda as she stood before the board, “how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?”
Over the next 40 minutes, a humiliated Beyda stood before the board that would eventually confirm her and defended her faith and fairness in an ugly confrontation that ended when a faculty adviser intervened. Alarmed critics say the incident illustrates how increasingly pro-Palestinian college student governments across the country routinely go beyond legitimate criticism of Israel and into the realm of unvarnished bigotry.
Other cases being blamed on the anti-Israel climate on campuses range from well-intended gaffes to clear cases of hate, including one last month in which University of California Davis students punctuated passage of a Jewish State boycott with shouts of "Allahu Akbar!"
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