Just over a year since an Orange County jury, in a politically-motivated prosecution,convicted the “Irvine 11” students for disrupting a lecture by Israeli Ambassdor 

Some 200 people turned out in the eastern French city of Chalon on Friday to show support for an activist standing trial for running on to the court during a match between Israel’s Maccabi Electra and the home team last month.

Campagne BDS France, one of several groups calling for the rally, http://www.bdsfrance.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp

A “human rights” conference at the University of Connecticut was in disarray after almost all the speakers pulled out.