Any hopes of hearing Helen Thomas crack Jewish jokes live and in person at the UC Irvine Laugh Factory are now out the window, according to a story that just went up on the OC Register website this morning. Actually the story has nothing to do with Helen Thomas but it does involve…..Jews!!!!
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To wit: the Register is reporting that UC Irvine officials have
banned the controversial Muslim Student Union (MSU) from campus,
apparently because of the group's habit of inviting speakers who
denounce Israel and being rude to Israeli guest speakers, like when
members of the group interrupted Israeli ambassador Michael Oren's Feb.
8 speech on campus. That stunt, while defended as an exercise in free
speech, resulted in 11 arrests. The anti-MSU ban will go into place
Sept. 1 and last one year, although the group has already appealed the
decision.
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).