The U.C. Irvine has become a battleground between the Muslim Students Union, thought to harasses and incite against Jewish students and to raise funds for terrorism, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which seeks to uphold the law and protect students from intimidation.
After having received many complaints of intimidation, ZOA submitted evidence to UC Irvine and the U.S. Department of Justice, that the U.C. Irvine Muslim Student Union (MSU), violated federal law and University policy by raising funds there for Hamas. The evidence includes a 31-page report on Viva Palestina, for which the funds were raised. The report was by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), whose “Executive Director, Steven Emerson, is one of the foremost experts on domestic terrorism in the U.S..”