Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Is this Really a Hate Crime? By Jason Rantz

As you may recall, I twice discussed the questionably anti-Semitic behavior of Pace administrators in mistreating the campus student Jewish organization, while kowtowing to demands of the student Muslim groups. After I was contacted by Pace’s flack Christopher Cory, the school’s Executive Director of Public Information, it was clear they were spinning events so fast it made me dizzy.

In the columns, I make it clear that the campus administration took radically different approaches to anti-Semitic behavior and anti-Muslim behavior.

When a Menorah was desecrated on campus and a swastika was drawn on a Holocaust memorial event poster, the University’s president David A. Caputo labeled the events as "bias incidents."

When a paperback Koran was tossed in a toilet – resulting in minimal water damage – Caputo labeled the incident as a “hate crime” that outraged him.

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