Posted on 02/19/2026 10:25:12 PM PST by Libloather
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled out of a speaking engagement at UCLA due to security concerns.
“We always follow our security team’s guidance. This situation is no different,” a CBS News spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The lecture honors the memory of slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Pakistani jihadist terrorists in 2002.
“We are working with the university to reschedule for a different date,” the network spokesperson added.
Steve Lurie, UCLA’s Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Safety Officer, told Fox News Digital the university had a “comprehensive security plan” in preparation for Weiss’ visit, which was initially scheduled for Feb. 27.
“The decision not to move forward with the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture was made by the speaker’s team, not UCLA,” Lurie said.
“The university was ready to implement a comprehensive security plan for this event, developed in coordination with campus safety and external law enforcement partners. UCLA remains committed to supporting public programming which represents a wide range of viewpoints, with safety planning tailored to each event.”
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She is learning we have freedom of speech so long as the speech is totally in favor of the woke leftist socialist viewpoint. Otherwise, be thankful you shut up in time before a mob took you out and beat you up.
King George III’s military leaders informed John Adams, Samuel Adams and others that they had freedom to say or write anything that praised and agreed with the British soldiers and the British leaders.
She’s finding out that mob veto works. Like that paid speaking engagement at a college where Ann Coulter and Ben Shapiro had their speeches called off by the president there who said his number one responsibility is the safety of his students and after the police car was pushed upside down and burned, all the windows on one side of the campus were broken and mobs threatened violence under placards “No Room For Hate On This Campus” about the Coulter and Shapiro visit, he had to ban their speeches for the common good and safety.
RE: “Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded by Pakistani jihadist terrorists in 2002.”
He was forced to say “I am Jewish” as the blade started cutting into his skin as he was on his knees with his hands bound behind his back.
An American journalist for The Wall Street Journal.
Kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002 while investigating a story on terrorism links.
There simply is no possibility of coexistence anywhere on the planet with some groups of people. They are evil incarnate, and there is no coexistence with evil.
True. The left are only going to get wilder and wilder, too.
Bari Weiss has a “wife”?!
Bari Weiss came out a Lez 20 years ago...
Anyone who wants to hurt Jewish people because they are Jewish is a devil straight from hell. We walk among devils straight from hell and the world is a sucky place.
If memory serves, it was speakers like Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Dinesh D'Souza, Michelle Malkin, and others who had their speaking engagements canceled due to security concerns.
Using history as my guide. I'm going to deduce that is left-wing extremists who are the source of concern.
Is this network spokesperson the head of The Department of Redundancy Department? Or is it possible to reschedule for the same date?
pressure campaign by Code Pink
Steve Lurie is NOT DOING HIS DAMN JOB!!! FIRE HIM!
WHY are so many Jews GAY or LESBIAN??
ah, Code Pink......Marjorie Taylor Grene’s BEST FRIENDS!
That makes her the “husband”?
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