In a blow to the anti-Israel movement on U.S. campuses, the University of California at Riverside has canceled the Fifth Annual International Al Awda Conference that was scheduled soon to take place there. According to Lee Kaplan, this is only the second time that an American university has declined to sponsor “an anti-Jewish hate fest that masquerades as an educational event about the Middle East.”

Al Awda’s conference was designed to be a training and strategy session for boycotting American and Israeli Jewish businesses, and for aiding the goal of extremists like Hamas to destroy Israel. Indeed, Al Awda’s founder once called Jews who live in Israel “a disease.”

The UC-Riverside administration claims that student organizers decided to cancel the event, but Kaplan says it “deserves praise for setting up ground rules that obviously made the event too risky for the organizers to conduct on campus.”

Read more about the obstacle course these administrators set up.