Israel envoy offers return to campus where students yelled 'murderer'

If a bunch of pro-Israeli students or Jews had set out to systematically heckle Yassir Arafat during one of his presentations, you anti-Israeli, hypocritical a-holes would have thrown a fit about denying him his free speech. Bunch of jackoffs, the lot of you.

Not even close to being valid in reality. "Palestinians" are in reality akin to Silesian or Sudeten Germans (some children of Silesian Germans now have started demanding that Poland return territory it got from a losing Germany after WW-2) or Biharis of Bangladesh--all groups responsible for their own state-of-affairs (Silesian and Sudeten Germans were both staunch supporters of Nazis, Biharis supported the Naziesque Pakistani government of Yahya Khan; also, "Palestinians" under Haj-amin Husseini were even stauncer Nazi-supporters than the German groups); the juxtaposition of Rosa Parks or Vietnam-war protestors (who had/have and exercised their rights as citizens of US) is egregious!

its about time Jews and others concerned with truth and justice organize to expose the injustice and lies commited by those who defame Jews and Israel. a vigorous offence will be the best defence to combat against these asaults. truth and justice must prevail...with a lot of effort to that end.

You are committing an either or fallacy. The students do have a right to protest. They could have legally protested outside the lecture. They could have asked Oren tough questions. They were not interested in dialogue. They repeatedly disrupted his lecture. They are nothing like Rosa Parks or MLK Jr. The students openly march around the campus with chants like "The State of Israel has to go." They are not trying to exchange ideas and work toward peaceful co-existence. They invite speakers on the campus like Amir Abdul Malik who say things like there will only be peace when the Jews are gone and the Muslims rule.

Israel is now exporting repression too?? Hecklers are removed; there is no basis for prosecuting them. he did continue his talk. Now he wants to get a two 'fer, Oren?.

for university students they seem to fit in better at a preschool

How do you plan on getting from here to there (or, there to here, alternatively)? If you (a) want to put them "through the mill," while (b) simultaneously denying them "forums," where does the aforementioned milling take place? Or have I got it backwards?

Where would we be today without the likes of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and the civil unrest against the Vietnam war? The students had the right to express their opinion of Mr. Oren without fear of persecution. From their perspective, Mr. Oren is directly responsible for the suffering of million of their brethren, he is not an innocent bystander.

You need to have a look at the world in which we live, cause it differs from the one in which you live. The USA is the biggest supporter of the Saudi regime, so if Britain supporting the Saudi regime is offensive to you, don't forget to bash the USA as well. You may also not have noticed that Britain tends rarely to side with Saudi Arabia over issues of Israeli actions. Remember the 2006 Lebanese war? The Saudis weren't too impressed with Israel, but the Brits allowed US planes to refuel here en route to supplying the IDF. How does that factor into your equation of the Brits bending backwards to accomodate the Saudis? During Cast Lead, did the British government boycott Israel? No, we supported them all the way to the last bullet fired, and now with the Goldstone report, we're backing Israel, not Saudi Arabia. Your notions about British allegence to Saudi Arabia are wrong, which makes your point of view about the relationship between Britian and Saudi Arabia wrong. Get a clue, will you

UC should allow him to come talk to those students who heckeled but israel should admit it old policy like the Germans did and the US did that we were wrong and we are going to change from now on our policy UC shouldve never invited him because of Israeli policy is racist against arabs

outside the Saudi enmbassy instead of grovelling to them as Brits do,billion quid bribes and all.

All israeli ambassadors should be put through the mill on racist policy,failing to observe international law and oppression.These people dont deserve a forum anywhere until Israel apreciates all people are equal,Palestinians, Jews and Gentiles

I hope he does come back to UC Irvine. I'll be sure I go to the lecture since I am interested in what he has to say.

I thought I would share a comment I read in the British newspaper, the Telegraph: "I began, many years ago, entirely supportive of Israel, as so many people are. Then I found the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. I began to read the true goings-on in Israel, the day-to-day things. I read on and on. Slowly I began to realise that the real Israel was not the Israel I had imagined it to be, and had been persuaded it was. I have come to believe, with absolute sincerity and conviction that Israel is a cancer in the Middle East, a cruel, violent, merciless, corrupted entity, led by some of the wickedest politicians on the planet." So good job, Haaretz! Keep up your fine work!

No Mr. Ambassador. It isn't going to work. The way it went down was exactly as planned by the Muslim Student Organizers. It was very similar to a protest by Jews, I witnessed at a Bolshoi Ballet Performance in Los Angeles during the 1970s or 80s. So if you are going to return, you have to go in with the knowledge that the Muslim kids and their leaders are going to want to use you. I mean, what are you going to argue for? Israel's continued construction in East Jerusalem? Whether or not Mossad had a hand in Dubai? I think right now this can't be a contest. There's an ongoing war. For American Public Opinion mostly. But we can't win it because the present Administration and Israel can't see eye to eye. A venting forum for the Muslim kids with you present would be better.