Assemblyman Chuck DeVore recently wrote to University of California Irvine’s chancellor, according to Southern California Public Radio, advocating that he ban the Muslim Student Union from campus after a number of the group members were arrested while disrupting a presentation by Israel’s ambassador to the United States. DeVore also accused the MSU of “passing the hat” for Hamas at a fundraiser for the “terrorist organization” last year.

MSU spokesman Hadeer Soliman responded that “a few” of the arrested students did belong to the group and that the organization is “being implicated under a `guilt by association’ theory.”

UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky defended the arrests but also took issue with parties calling “for draconian sanctions against these students or of punishment for a larger group. Only the students who were actually disruptive should be punished.”

It remains to be seem what punishment, if any, UCI will mete out to the offending students.