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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Please take these three important actions to protect free speech, academic freedom, and our ability to work for Palestinian human rights:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><br>►</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333'> </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact your <a href="http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/">Assembly member</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and tell them to vote no on</span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'> <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SCR35">SCR 35</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>, another thinly veiled attempt to <a href="https://sacramentodocs.wordpress.com/no-to-scr-35">silence students at UC and CSU campuses</a> who </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>are working to end their schools’ complicity with the Israeli government’s egregious, well documented violations of human rights and international law.</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'> <br><br></span><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kevin McCarty – 916-319-2007; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ken Cooley <span style='background:white'>916-319-2008;</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Assemblymember.Cooley@assembly.ca.gov<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Jim Cooper <span style='background:white'>916-319-2009</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>;<span style='color:black;background:white'> Assemblymember.Cooper@assembly.ca.gov<br></span><span style='color:black'>Bill Dodd – <span style='background:white'>916-319-2004;</span></span> Assemblymember.Dodd@assembly.ca.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>►Please sign the petition to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17832&track=kickerphoto">tell the State Department to revise its definition of anti-Semitism</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br>►<b>Please sign the petition to <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18000">tell UC President Napolitano and the UC Regents: criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.2pt;margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Forwarded message from Jewish Voice for Peace:<br><br>Dear Supporter,</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Have you ever criticized Israel? Do you oppose occupation and human rights abuses? According to a policy supported by Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California, you could be branded an anti-Semite.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last week, Napolitano told NPR's Here and Now that she agrees with the State Department's definition of anti-Semitism, a definition that includes political criticism of the policies of the state of Israel. Worse still, she told the UC Regents that she wants them to adopt that definition at their upcoming meeting in July.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We all agree that anti-Semitism is deeply wrong, and we need to fight it wherever it exists. But this overbroad definition will do nothing to fight anti-Semitism. Instead of protecting Jewish students from bigotry, it’ll silence critics of Israeli state policies -- Jewish and non-Jewish alike.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We’re sending a letter to the University of California Office of the President and the UC Regents, telling them that criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic. </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2qVwhf8U8byKjoMOYwq5f5Sbn%2F7XEQW%2F"><b><span style='color:maroon'>Will you add your name, and ask them to reject this definition?</span></b></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The “State Department definition” of anti-Semitism is a dangerous and un-enforceable definition, because it includes clauses about “demonizing,” “delegitimizing,” and “applying a double-standard to the state of Israel,” prohibitions that are so vague that they could be, and have been, construed to silence any criticism of Israeli policies.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In addition to being a JVP’s Academic Advisory Coordinator, I’m also an academic. I’m passionate about fostering critical thinking in my classroom. This definition limits open debate, and could potentially restrict research and teaching in multiple fields. We can’t have great universities without academic freedom, and we can’t have academic freedom when certain political opinions are being muzzled.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Whether you’re a lifelong Golden Stater and a UC grad, or a California transplant, we need your voice. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YokJftyPnH3hWS54Q3YbzpSbn%2F7XEQW%2F"><b><span style='color:maroon'>Tell the UC President and Regents that criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic.</span></b></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It’s vital that we fight anti-Semitism, and every other form of vile bigotry. But this official definition of anti-Semitism won’t protect students, it’ll silence them.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you for fighting back.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Onward,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tallie Ben Daniel, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><img border=0 width=199 height=103 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D0A521.409B7CA0" alt="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/images/tallie%20signature(1).JPG"><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Tallie Ben Daniel, PhD<br>Academic Advisory Council Co-Ordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.55pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>P.S. <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PFAAdT7i4KSk%2BXaY8JAUF5Sbn%2F7XEQW%2F"><span style='color:maroon'>A report from the Palestine Legal Support and the Center for Constitutional Rights</span></a>: "Accusations of Anti-Semitism Used to Deter Advocacy for Palestinian Rights." <a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8Pf17ULwRQlHBFey%2FWbWvJSbn%2F7XEQW%2F"><b><span style='color:maroon'>Tell Janet Napolitano that academics and activists must not be silenced.</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>