Foxman gained privileged access to UC school administrators in pressing ‘anti-Semitism’ case against Jewish critic of Israel

I'm running to Washington today, to cover the AIPAC policy conference, but wanted to publish some info I picked up about the case of William I. Robinson, the sociology prof at UC/Santa Barbara who is being investigated for alleged anti-Semitism for passing along to students a widely-distributed email comparing Israeli behavior in Gaza with the Nazis along with his observation that Gaza was the Palestinians' Warsaw ghetto.
–Note that Haaretz says that Robinson is Jewish. Huh.
–The best source of info in the case, including the original Robinson email and two students' letters from February that precipitated the university's investigation, is the school's new Committee to Defend Academic Freedom website. Jeb Sprague, a student who is on the committee, tells me that the Anti-Defamation League letter to Robinson in early February, complaining of his behavior, preceded the students' letters.
The Committee also posts a report on a meeting in March between school administrators and faculty and Abe Foxman, the head of the ADL, at which Foxman urged the investigation of Robinson.
"The administration has refused to meet with students who oppose the investigation," Sprague says. "But they meet with the head of a huge powerful organization that flies out from the East Coast. How does he get this access and the students don't get access?"
20 students had a sitin at the administration over this issue earlier this week. They say the investigation of Robinson violates university bylaws. What about the anti-Semitism charge?
"It's completely bogus," Sprague says. "They're conflating a critique of state violence used in one of the most densely populated civilian areas with racism. Can professors of international affaris not make historical comparisons?"