From a Yahoo! Businesswire press release. DePaul's Norman Finkelstein has not been overlooked.
StandWithUs, the international advocacy and educational organization, has produced its first documentary exposing anti-Israel speakers on campuses, it was announced today by Roz Rothstein, national director. The 45-minute "Tolerating Intolerance: Hate Speech on Campuses" will be screened in New York on Sept. 19 at the Lighthouse International Conference Center, with the national premiere Sept. 29 in Beverly Hills at the Writers Guild Theater.
The documentary profiles the proliferation of toxic, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic speakers at American universities, their impact on students, and college administrators' reaction to the growing problem. Footage was obtained by StandWithUs researchers of speakers such as radical, U.S.-based Muslim cleric Abdel Malik Ali; Washington, D.C. consultant Mohammed Al-Asi; and DePaul University assistant professor Norman Finkelstein, who has spoken at UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, California State University-Fullerton, and the University of California, Irvine; among others.
"We scrutinized hundreds of hours of footage of anti-Israel speakers and were surprised to discover how similar this type of very vocal hatred is -- and that is very frightening," warned Rothstein, who spearheaded the documentary team. "There is a disturbing amount of repetition of anti-Israel comments, and part of that repetition simply builds on centuries-old, anti-Semitic incitement against Jews. Moreover, StandWithUs' work with campuses reveals a disturbing trend by administrators to look the other way."
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