Burning Down The Wall

A mock “security wall” erected as a protest against Israel’s security fence, has apparently been burned down.

The burning of a mock “security wall,” erected by Arab students on the Irvine campus of the University of California, is being investigated as a possible arson attack and hate crime.

The “wall,” consisting of stacked cardboard boxes and measuring 6 by 8 feet, went up in flames late last week in the university’s main quad.

UCI’s Society of Arab Students had obtained a permit to put up the wall to protest the security fence built by Israel as a barrier against terrorist infiltration.

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The Southern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged the FBI and police to investigate the wall burning as a hate crime, “because of the ethnic and religious nature of the display and its sponsors.”

As far as I am concerned, the erection of the mock wall, as a protest against a democratic nation’s right to protect itself from terrorist incursions, is the only hate crime here. I am sure the act of burning it down (assuming this wasn’t an accident) was not motivated by hatred, but rather by anger.

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