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Wiesenthal Center Commends CA State Assembly for Resolution Urging Universities to Condemn Wave of Campus Anti-Semitism

The Simon Wiesenthal commends the California State Assembly for recently passing a resolution urging California campuses to condemn all forms of anti-Semitism. The State Senate passed theresolution in May.

“In the wake of virulent attacks on Jewish campus institutions - including swastika graffiti on a Jewish fraternity house – California’s highest officials and leaders have taken a vital publicposition on the odious nature of the ever growing and menacing anti-Semitism,” said Aron Hier, Director of the Wiesenthal Center’s Campus Outreach program.

For more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agenciesincluding the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).

Wiesenthal Center Commends CA Assembly’s Higher ED Committee Vote Condemning Campus Anti-Semitism; Urges UC Regents Adopt State Department’s Anti-Semitism Definition

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended the California State Assembly’s Higher Education Committee’s passage of SCR-35. SCR-35 utilizes the U.S....

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