The Chemerinsky Affair and the Zionist Bogeyman

(Israelnationalnews.com) Seems like no one can get fired these days in academia without it all somehow being the fault of the Zionist bogeyman.

Above - UCI's new law dean and friend of the Corries. 

Case in point. The University of California at Irvine (where I once taught) is opening a law school. The candidate for the First Dean at the School is one Erwin Chemerinsky, a left-leaning law professor fairly well known in academic law circles, especially for his politically correct activism. He is politically active in things like battling capital punishment and preventing action against illegal aliens. He is also mildly anti-Israel, although all but unknown as an Israel-basher when comparing him to his fame as a politically correct liberal activist. He represented the nutty Corrie family when they sued Caterpillar for their idiotic daughter's suicide on behalf of terrorism, and he is a member in an anti-Zionist Jewish leftist organization (Jewish Progressive Alliance). But all that is pretty tame by today's campus standards.

And especially by UCI standards. UCI has been the center for a growing plague of militant Islamofascist student organizations who make no secret of what they think should be done with the Jews. UCI also hosts the full-time anti-Israel propagandist, Tikkun member, and Finkelstein clone, Mark Levine, who spells his name LeVine to give himself fake Norman airs, and whom I call Mark La La Vine. See him here.

Levine is best known for organizing balanced middle east panel discussions for UCI students in which the Israeli point of view is represented by Ilan Pappe and Oren Yiftachel.

La La LeVine, too busy promoting jihad to get a haircut 

Now, the UCI campus notwithstanding, Orange County, in which the campus sits, is a rightwing Republican place and not particularly Jewish and contains its share of conservative anti-Semites, some quite vocal. The local donors to UCI were not happy with the choice of Chemerinsky, not because of his pathetic campaign on behalf of the Corries but because they do not like his leftist political activism.

UCI's Chancellor then un-appointed Chemerinsky as Dean, but a few days later appointed him again. The Chancellor at UCI has never been very upset by the Bash-the-Jews activities on campus of the Islamofascists and jihadniks, refused to denounce anti-Semitic bigotry in a manner like Larry Summers, but was nervous about losing donations from conservative gentiles upset at what he says (see this ).

The Moonbatocracy is screaming that Chemerinsky is being targeted by the nefarious "Israel Lobby." I never know just what these critters mean when they scream about an "Israel Lobby" and I always suspect that they just mean moi. Be that as it may, everyone from the Finkelsteinians to the pro-terror Muzzlewatch.com kapos to Huffington to the Counterpunch pogromchiks, is blaming the demonic "Israel Lobby" for the controversy over Chemerinsky.