About a dozen University of California students were arrested at UC Irvine last night after they disrupted a speech by Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Oren, who is on a speaking tour of West Coast campuses, was interrupted by protesters ten times over the course of his speech, and at one point left the podium for twenty minutes.
A post at the Irvine activist blog Occupy UCI said that twelve students were arrested, and that all were enrolled at UC Irvine, while an Associated Press article put the number at eleven — nine Irvine students and two from UC Riverside. All of the arrested students were cited and released at the scene.
Another Israeli official, Daniel Taub of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is scheduled to speak at Irvine at noon tomorrow, in an event billed as a discussion of “Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Law.”
studentactivism.net 
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March 21, 2010 at 12:31 am
honey
I think that those students should be given the chance to speak freely in the form of questions and answers, instead of arresting them and showing them as unjustly treated students.
Why was they threatened of failing their exams?
Is it because they expressed their negative feelings toward the Israeli ambassador in an improper way?
If so, they should have given the proper way to express such feelings.
What happened to those who gave sexual gestures by their hands and their middle fingers?
Were they punished for violating the proper way of behaving inside the campus?