Anti-Israel Week at UC Irvine Day One

It’s that week again at UC Irvine. The Muslim Student Union and Students for Justice in Palestine are holding their 4-day week of events Monday-Thursday this week. They are teaming up with the American-Indian Student Initiative and something called Students Advocating for Immigrant Rights and Equity. It appears the theme is to draw an analogy between the dispossession of the native American tribes from their land in the US and the Palestinian situation. Below is the schedule:


The Muslim Student Union, Students for Justice in Palestine, American Indian Student Association, and Students Advocating for Immigrant Rights and Equity invite you to come be part of our annual Anti-Zionism Week during week 6 of Spring Quarter. 

The week is planned as follows:
EVERYDAY: The Wall & Art as Resistance Gallery @8AM-5PM, Anteater Plaza

Monday, May 8: “there is that which deserves to live”
- AISA Land Blessing Ceremony @ 12-1PM, Anteater Plaza
- Mock Funeral @1:50PM, Anteater Plaza
- Film Screening: Slingshot Hip-Hop @7PM, Doheny Beach B

Tuesday, May 9: “they stopped me at the border”
- Stories and Demonstration @ 12-1PM, Anteater Plaza 
- Mock Funeral @1:50PM, Anteater Plaza
- Breaking Borders Panel @ 7PM, Doheny Beach B

Wednesday, May 10: “mother of all beginnings, mother of all ends”
- Mock Funeral @ 1:50PM, Anteater Plaza
- Divestment Hearing @ 3:30PM, CSU Long Beach (contact event heads if you need a ride)

Thursday, May 11: “it was Palestine…it is Palestine”
- Call to Action @ 12-1PM
- Film Screening: Gaza in Context @ 6-8PM, Doheny Beach B

Today, I visited the mock apartheid wall that goes up every year when this circus comes to town and took some photos of the panels. I will post them shortly.

At noon, about ten female students, a couple of whom were Native American, stepped to the microphone and read off the names of indigenous women in North America who have been murdered in recent years. If I recall correctly, only one case has resulted in arrest. However, every single case involved indigenous Canadian women. Every case cited happened in Canada.

Here are more photos: (Two are from a separate exhibit and are marked “side display”.)

(Side display)

(Side display)