We, faculty at the University of California--Irvine, are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis. The troubling events over the past few years include the painting of swastikas in university buildings, the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika, a statement (by a speaker repeatedly invited by the Muslim Student Union) that the Zionist Jew is a party of satan, a statement by another MSU speaker that the Holocaust was God's will, the tearing down of posters placed by the student group Anteaters for Israel, and the hacking of their web site. Some community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe.

Some of these actions are protected by the First Amendment and in no way do we want to limit freedom of speech.  We welcome open dialogue among all members of the UCI community.  We respect and value our Muslim colleagues, including those members of the MSU who support and encourage open dialogue and civility on campus.  At the same time, we take issue with hate-promoting actions that we find unacceptable. They run counter to the peaceful co-existence and civility that are essential to a university environment. Actions that demonize and derogate others, such as the previous events that have occurred on our campus noted above, have contributed to UCI's developing a growing reputation as a center of hate and intolerance.  Our campus deserves better.

Signed (Revised May 20: 67 Signatures):

• Myron Bander, Professor, Department of Physics
• Jill Berg, Associate Professor, Program in Nursing Science
• Marlon Boarnet, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design
• Matthew Brenner, Professor, Department of Medicine
• Dvora Cyrlak, Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
• Gil Conchas, Associate Professor, Department of Education
• Dan Cooper, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering
• Russell J. Dalton, Professor, Department of Political Science
• Rina Dechter, Professor, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Hamid Djalilian, Associate Professor of Surgery
• Jill Endres, MD, Director, Surgical Education, Department of Surgery
• George Farkas, Professor, Department of Education
• Paul Feldstein, Robert Gumbiner Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business
• Gary Fouse, Adjunct teacher, University Extension
• Karen Fox- Asraf, Adjunct teacher, University Extension/ESL
• Stephen Franklin, Lecturer, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Jean Fried, Project Scientist, Department of Planning, Policy, and Design
• De Gallow, Director, Teaching, Learning & Technology Center, Division  of Undergraduate   Education
• Julia M. Gelfand, Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian
• Amihai Glazer, Professor, Department of Economics
• Sara Wallace Goodman, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
• Sheldon Greenfield, Donald Bren Professor, School of Medicine
• Dan Hirschberg, Professor, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Christopher Kahn, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
• Tatiana Kain, Chair and Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine
• Zeev Kain, Professor, Anesthesiology & Pediatrics & Psychiatry
• Sherrie Kaplan, Professor of Medicine
• Mark I. Langdorf, Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine
• Howard M. Lenhoff, Professor Emeritus, Developmental & Cell Biology
• Marc Lerner, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
• Kathie Levin, Lecturer, Department of English
• Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor, Department of  Psychology & Social Behavior, and Department of  Criminology, Law & Society
• Gloria Mark, Professor, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Richard Matthew, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy and Design
• Seymour Menton, Research Professor, Department of  Spanish & Portugese
• Frank Meyskens, Professor of Medicine, Biological Chemistry and Public Health
• Dana Mukamel, Professor, Department of Medicine
• David Neumark, Professor, Department of Economics
• Alex Nicolau, Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Raymond W. Novaco, Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
• Eliezer Nussbaum, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
• Ellen Olshansky, Professor and Director, Program in Nursing Science
• Richard Pattis, Lecturer, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
• Harry Pellman, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
• Henry N. Pontell, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology
• Shlomit Radom-Aizik, Postdoc, Department of Pediatrics
• Judy Rosener, Senior Lecturer, School of Business
• Carl H. Schultz, Professor, Emergency Medicine
• Gail Schwartz, Adjunct teacher University Extension/ESL
• Jacobo Sefami, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Roberta Seid, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences
• Roxane Cohen Silver, Professor Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
• Larry Sims, Lecturer in UCI-EXT/ESL
• William A. Sirignano, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Etel Solingen, Chancellor's Professor, Political Science
• Dara Sorkin, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine
• Eugene Spiritus, Chief Medical Officer, UCI Medical Center
• Robin Steinberg-Epstein M.D. Medical School Education
• Hal Stern, Professor, Department of Statistics
• Dan Stokols, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Planning, Policy,  & Design, and Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
• Jerome Tobis, Professor emeritus (recalled)
• Gene Tsudik, Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Alex Veidenbaum, Professor, Department of Computer Science
• Mark Warschauer, Professor of Education and Informatics
• Elaine Weiss, Adjunct teacher, UCI-EXT-ESL
• James Weiss, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
• Hadar Ziv, Lecturer/Research Scientist, Department of Informati