"Fight Anti-Semitism at UC Berkley!"

The University of California Berkeley Student Senate has accused the
state of Israel of war crimes and is attacking companies that support Israel. On
March 17, the Student Senate passed a resolution that the University should
divest itself of any companies in which it owns stock that does business with
Israel. On March 24th, the Student Body President of UC Berkeley vetoed
the bill. The President called the resolution: “a symbolic attack on a specific
community” that is “being used as a tool to delegitimize Israel.”

The Student Senate plans to override the veto on April 14th. The Student Senate
is currently receiving comments against investing in Israel 50 to 1! I
strongly urge everyone to add your voice in support of Israel. This can be
done by a simple mouse click, using standards emails pre-prepared for you, by
going to http://calsupportsisrael.com/.

The Following is the text of my letter, emailed to USC Student
Senate, and USC Student Body President earlier today.

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April 12, 2010

Dear UC Berkeley President Smelko,

I am very pleased and impressed that you stood up and vetoed the Berkeley
Student Government vote to divest university funds from companies connected
to Israel and Israeli products. Hopefully, this Wednesday's student
government attempt to overturn your veto will not succeed.

Are the divestment students and their supporters planning to unplug most all the
university computers systems which likely run due to Israeli developed
technology, to give up their Israeli engineered laptop and desktop computers, to
boycott California's Israeli made solar energy fields, to boycott the Israeli
electric car innovations, to refuse to drink desalinated, purified and disease
free water due to Israeli filtration, to insist that no water be recycled
because Israel leads the world in water reclamation, to prevent California
farmers from using Israeli drip irrigation and return to wasting billions of
gallons of scarce fresh water on the old flood irrigation method, to trash their
Israeli technology cell phones, Israeli developed instant messaging, camera
phones, and computer jump drives, and to give up all Israeli innovations in
medical technology which will likely keep their family members living through
life threatening diseases? Then these "forward thinking" Israeli divestment
cheerleaders will demand to take down the nation's Israeli engineered and
trained airport security systems.

The Palestinian Arab leadership daily preaches that it wants Israel destroyed
and removed from history. Israeli leadership daily preaches that it wants
to live in peace with its neighbors. Why do the Berkeley divestment
students support in the name of "peace" those who want Israel destroyed and cast
a blind and hate filled eye to those who are actively helping the Arabs live
better lives?

Thank you for standing up against the tide of student, faculty and community
pressure which has gotten lost in a deluge of deluded causes.

Sincerely,

Daryl Temkin, Ph.D.
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Daryl Temkin, Ph.D. is the founder of the Israel Institute for the Advancement
of Alternative Energy.