Zachary Tennen, Michigan State Jewish Student, Victim Of Vicious Hate Crime At Weekend Party

(h/t @TaglitBRI via huffingtonpost.com) Two men gave the "Heil Hitler" salute before knocking Zachary Tennen, a Jewish student at Michigan State University, unconscious and stapling his mouth.
Tennen, a 19-year-old sophomore at MSU, was at an off-campus party in the wee hours of Sunday morning in East Lansing, Mich. According to reports, two college-aged males approached him and asked if he was Jewish. When Tennen said indeed he was, the men made the Hitler salute and said they were part of the Ku Klux Klan.
Then Tennen was attacked, punched in the face which knocked him unconscious and broke his jaw. While Tennen was out, his mouth was stapled shut while about 20 people watched. No one attempted to intervene.
When he came to, no one offered to help him. To the contrary, Tennen told The State News, he was kicked out of the house. Tennen had to take a cab to get to the hospital.
"I'm really, really upset in a few ways; First of all it is a terrible experience, physically and also mentally to know someone would do something like this,” he said. “It almost seemed like they tried to kill me, and to think about that in my brain, physically — it isn't very pleasant."
Bruce Tennen, the victim's father, told The State News he plans to contact the Anti-Defamation League and the FBI regarding the incident. The hospital did not call law enforcement, and neither did anyone at the party, so police did not know about the incident until Tennen's family contacted them Sunday.
East Lansing police are still investigating and the Tennens say they do not know the two men's names yet.
When the Detroit Free Press attempted to speak with people at the house where the party and the attack took place, the person who answered the door told them police instructed them not to speak about the incident.
Zachary Tennen was scheduled to undergo surgery Monday and is currently on a liquid diet.
"Michigan State University's Student Affairs and Services office has reached out to the family of the student assaulted in East Lansing to provide the academic and other support the student needs,” MSU spokesperson Kent Cassella said in a statement. "MSU will work with the student and his professors to ensure he can fulfill his academic requirements, as we would with any student in need."
Tina Tennen, the victim's mother, confirmed the university has been in contact with them. "They've outreached to us. But we’re still trying to find them [the attackers]. The job isn’t done."

UC Irvine upholds suspension of Muslim Student Union for shout-down of Israeli ambassador

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An update on this story. "UC Irvine upholds suspension of Muslim group, bans it for one quarter," by Raja Abdulrahim for the Los Angeles Times, September 4:
The suspension of a Muslim student group at UC Irvine was upheld by university officials, but the recommended yearlong ban was reduced to one academic quarter, a move that could allow the group to begin participating in campus activities in January.
The Muslim Student Union was appealing the campus ban that was handed down earlier this summer after a protest by several students during a February speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

Maintaining denials in the face of evidence (funny how that keeps happening):
The group has maintained that it did not organize the protest, though several of its officers and members participated in the protest, in which Oren was repeatedly interrupted as he spoke.
In maintaining the suspension, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Manuel Gomez focused mostly on the participation of members of the organization in the protest rather than a lengthy set of e-mails that was used as evidence in the initial investigation by the university's director of student housing.
The e-mails, which the school said it obtained anonymously, showed that the Muslim Student Union "planned, orchestrated and coordinated" the protest, school administrators had said in the previous suspension letter.
"The public actions of [blacked out] give the appearance of MSU sponsorship to these serious violations of campus policies and First Amendment protections," Gomez wrote this week in his letter to the group. "And because the violations occurred on campus ... the perception of MSU endorsement is especially difficult to overcome."
The group must complete 100 hours of community service before it can apply for reinstatement late this year. Once that has been granted, the union will be on probation for two years.
No situation is ever too absurd to play the victim card:
During a news conference Friday, representatives of the organization continued to maintain that the suspension amounts to collective punishment. Incoming union Vice President Hadeer Soliman said members have received hate mail and endured personal attacks during this time.
Given what she described as a rising tide of anti-Muslim hate in the country, Soliman said the suspension sends "the wrong message at the wrong time."...

What, to demand civil (and indeed, civilized) behavior according to a consistent standard to which all students are subject? Yeah, totally the wrong message.

And it couldn't possibly be motivated by anything but sheer, seething, bilious hate, could it?
Of course, this is another case of a Muslim group demanding a pass on its bad behavior because it feels somehow less well liked due to that same behavior (see, for example: CAIR's Hamas links, and the funding of the Ground Zero mosque).

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