ABC7 reports that the University of California-Irvine "has been investigating the Muslim Student Union after a protest at a speech by the Israeli ambassador earlier this year. Monday, the school announced its findings... Video of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren's February speech at the University of California-Irvine posted on YouTube shows hecklers in action. Eleven students, all of them members of the Muslim Student Union of UCI, were arrested after repeated warnings to stop disrupting the speech. After a month-long investigation by the university, the MSU has been banned from campus for a year and placed on disciplinary probation for another year."
The following is the response from Shalom Elcott, the President of the Jewish Federation Orange County, California:
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Monday, June 14, 2010
UCI's Muslim Student Union Banned By School For One Year In Response To Unacceptable Heckling Of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren
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