Posted on 09/30/2022 6:04:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers who support Israel or Zionism. In America, more and more college campuses, heavily influenced by Muslim students, are trying to become “Israel-free zones,” free of the taint of what virulent anti-Semites like Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), slander as an “apartheid state.”
Jewish Journal – Kenneth L. Marcus (h/t Mary C) If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame. Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism.
And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian PacificAmerican Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.
' Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers who support Israel or Zionism. In America, more and more college campuses, heavily influenced by Muslim students, are trying to become “Israel-free zones,” free of the taint of what virulent anti-Semites like Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), slander as an “apartheid state.”
Jewish Journal – Kenneth L. Marcus (h/t Mary C) If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame. Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism.
And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian PacificAmerican Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.
It is now a century since Jewish-free zones first spread to the San Francisco Bay Area (“No Dogs. No Jews”). Nevertheless, this move seems frightening and unexpected, like a bang on the door in the night. CBN It’s part of a movement called BDS — Boycott, Divestment and Sanction — but only against one nation: Israel.
The BDS movement is taking over college campuses in Europe and America. Ronnie Fraser, a college lecturer and founding director of the Academic Friends of Israel, warns that the next generation of leaders is being brainwashed that Israel is the worst nation on earth.
The BDS anti-Israel boycott movement says it’s not anti-Semitic, but they don’t boycott any real tyrannical or totalitarian nations. Students on American college campuses are being fed a diet of ‘Israel is a racist state. Israel is a Zionist state. Israel equals the Nazis.’
In Germany, Nazi persecution of the Jews began with a boycott in April 1933. While some who are boycotting Israel now may truly believe they’re trying to help Palestinians, but the goal of the Israel boycott is the same as Nazi Germany’s – to eliminate all Jews.
Even the EU equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The EU says anti-Semitism includes, “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” and by “applying double standards [to Israel].”
Berkeley law students are not the first to exclude Pro-Israel Jews: At the State University of New York at New Paltz, activists drove two sexual assault victims out of a survivor group for being Zionists.
At the University of Southern California, they drove Jewish student government vice president Rose Ritch out of office, threatening to “impeach [her] Zionist ass.” At Tufts, they tried to oust student judiciary committee member Max Price from the student government judiciary committee because of his support for Israel.
These exclusions reflect the changing face of campus antisemitism. The highest profile incidents are no longer just about toxic speech, which poisons the campus environment.
Now anti-Zionist groups target Jewish Americans directly.
Anti-Zionism is flatly antisemitic. Using “Zionist” as a euphemism for Jew is nothing more than a confidence trick. Like other forms of Judeophobia, it is an ideology of hate, treating Israel as the “collective Jew” and smearing the Jewish state with defamations similar to those used for centuries to vilify individual Jews.
This ideology establishes a conspiratorial worldview, sometimes including replacement theory, which has occasionally erupted in violence, including mass-shooting, in recent months. Moreover, Zionism is an integral aspect of the identity of many Jews. Its derogation is analogous, in this way, to other forms of hate and bigotry.
Some commentators defend these exclusions on speech grounds, arguing that “groups also have a right to be selective, to set their own rules for membership.” They are wrong about this. As Dean Chemerinsky explains, the free speech arguments run in the other direction: Berkeley’s anti-Zionist bylaws limit the free speech of Zionist students.
Discriminatory conduct, including anti-Zionist exclusions, is not protected as free speech. While hate speech is often constitutionally protected, such conduct may violate a host of civil rights laws, such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It is not always the case that student groups have the right to exclude members in ways that reflect hate and bigotry. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of another Bay Area University of California law school, Hastings College of the Law, to require student groups to accept all students regardless of status or beliefs. Specifically, the Court blessed Hastings’ decision to require Christian groups to accept gay members.
Putting legal precedents aside, major universities generally require student groups to accept “all comers,” regardless of “status of beliefs.” They also adopt rules, aligned with federal and state law, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of various classifications such as race, ethnicity, heritage or religion. Those who adopt such rules may not exclude Jews from these protections.
The real issue here is discrimination, not speech. By adopting anti-Jewish bylaw provisions, these groups are restricting their successors from cooperating with pro-Israel speakers and groups. In this way, the exclusionary bylaws operate like racially restrictive covenants, precluding minority participation into perpetuity. Universities should not have to be legally compelled to do what is obviously right.
Anti-Zionist policies would still be monstrously immoral, even if they were not also unlawful. The students should be ashamed of themselves. As should grownups who stand quietly by or mutter meekly about free speech as university spaces go as the Nazis’ infamous call, judenfrei. Jewish-free.
This, from the same POS Demonic Party filth that continually state that anything resembling normalcy “aren’t our values” or “isn’t who we are”... pure, unadultered, evil scum.
It’s not my America either. We used to,be a “fairly polite “ society, back in the 70’s and 80’s where lecturers were allowed to speak, and protests were limited to outside. Far more people got along back then than today, and were fairly civil towards others. Not so much anymore. THere have always been angry groups, but it’s gotten really bad lately with the angry violent left burning down city blocks, destroying anyone that opposes their,radical agenda, assaulting others etc. I thi k there is probably more racism today than in earlier years but now it is the minority groups that are racist towards “privileged whites”. Back in the 70’s we mostly all got along regardless of race. There were some blatant maggots who hated others not like,them, but mostly everyone got along. Things today are much much different. THere is just an air of animosity that hangs thick in the air these days on both sides now. Liberals have destroyed the progress that was made by inciting black and minority communities to hate whitey. They don’t even try to hide it anymore, and they want to teach it in classes, just like the Palestinians teach jew hatred to kids in schools.
As you said, this is not the America I grew up in- it has radically changed for the worse
The same Snowflake pukes that call us Nazis. Weird how that works.
Yank any federal funding their heads spin. No room for cultivating such a nest of hate.
I was at columbia u in the 70’s and 80’s. My view of columbia was that its student body was mostly wasp until 1900 or so. then the student body became increasingly diverse but the wasp culture remained dominant until about the 1960’s when the culture there became liberal jewish. (but jews were never dominant in numbers—just culture.)I have not been there in a couple decades but my guess is that because of the increasing anti semitism there —the dominant culture at columbia u has become something else like woke which just mashes down everybody.
My understanding of Berkeley was that it was/is the columbia u on the west coast.
How would you characterize the cultural changes at berkeley during the 20th century. does columbia’s history match berkeley or would you say something else happened.
Well said.!
The Arab world is awash with petro-dollars, that buys a lot of influence. Don’t forget is was the Wahabis in SA that financed the coordinated 911 attacks...
...who’s to say they don’t finance anti-jew mischief exercises elsewhere.
Just like all those Soro’s led District Attorneys that have ruined our once magnificent cities/civilization.
Follow the money.
No problem! The tuitions of foreign students from oil rich nations will take up the slack.
He who eats my bread sings my song...
They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian PacificAmerican Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus.
Well at least the Berkeley White Hetero Male Christian Law Student Association did not join in.
Why?
Those were his hand-raised monkeys and it was his circus, not yours...
Yet.
Not all students at universities think this way, but all people who think this way learn it in universities.
In the 1980’s Berkely made an bit of a comeback to serious academic pursuits due to the Silicone Valley boom. The radicals were marginalized a bit by the students who just wanted to get a great education and make a ton of money in the Tech Boom.
Columbia had no such dynamics and just kept drifting Left, if that were possible.
The thing that shocked me was the rapid rise of Islamic radicalism, probably due to Yasser Arafat PLO partisans getting into the school. Same thing happened at McGill up in Canada except worse. This was like mid 1990s and it was the first time I became aware that Islamic radicals were becoming a thing in the US.
Strangely, seemed the were closely aligned with non practicing, atheistic Jews in the Radical Left community.
I ask myself the question. Guess you had to be there
That’s easy.
Go look up Carlos the Jackal and the Marxist Muslim alliance. Both groups recognized that neither one could bring down the west singularly , thus as an alliance it could be done.
He was not alone in this thinking
It was weird.
Politics of Meaning - what a pants load. Lerner was and is a total fraud just like Hillary.
Sure is.
Turns out the left, while calling us Fascists, are Fascists.
Turns out the left, while calling us Nazis, are Nazis.
their ultimate goals of radical muslims and leftists are different. the leftists want a communist state. the muslims want a caliphate. but in the meantime both the radical muslims and the leftists want the destruction of western civilization.
all the bad stuff is completely government funded. if real republicans ever get hold of the the congress and the white house in sufficient numbers—they will defund the universities that promulgate a lot of the bad stuff.
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