Posted on 02/29/2024 10:46:06 AM PST by SJackson
Antisemitism took a frightening turn Monday at the University of California, Berkeley, where a pro-Palestinian mob surrounded a campus auditorium, broke a window, and harassed Jewish students trying to enter the building.
Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat was invited by a Jewish student group to address the subject of Israel and international law. This included “the rules of wartime conduct and how the [Israel Defense Forces] can better protect civilians,” according to an Instagram post by Students Supporting Israel at Berkeley.
But the speech never happened, as besieged Jewish students gathered inside a nearly empty auditorium in Zellerbach Playhouse while some 200 protesters chanted “intifada” and “free Palestine” and banged on windows, surrounding and shouting at those trying to enter. Students and the speaker were evacuated for their personal safety.
Shouting down unpopular speakers is common on campus, but the vitriol directed at students sets this incident apart. One student captured on a video clip said the protesters shouted “Jew Jew Jew” in his face and spat at him. Other students reported heckling and harassment as they tried to get past the mob. There’s no way to know how many other students stayed away out of fear of the mob or social ostracism merely for showing up.
Silencing and intimidation are the intended outcome, and anti-Jewish groups script their messages in the campus vernacular of white imperialism. In a “campus wide call to action,” Bears for Palestine said Mr. Bar-Yoshafat, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, had been invited to speak “to spread settler colonial Zionist propaganda about the very genocide he has participated in.” The group declared it would “not allow for this event to go on.” In their moral confusion, the same students wearing “Ceasefire Now” shirts were shouting “intifada, intifada,” endorsing violent protests.
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That sounds familiar
Shouting down speakers is common on campus.
Yes. That is the left’s idea of “free speech.”
Quite possible it's the invitation and the presence of Jewish students that that violated Berkeley's values. Given the absence of any police response I assume the riot didn't attract any attention. In a statement after the event, Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ and executive vice chancellor Benjamin Hermalin wrote that the incident “violated not only our rules, but also some of our most fundamental values.” The letter notes that the university took precautions to add security, including campus police. They said the goal was to keep students safe and let the event go forward, but “it was not possible to do both given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence.”
That’s some admission. When the hate directed at Jewish students on campus is so extreme that the university can’t protect them, the failure rests with school officials as much as with the harassers.
Not a damn thing will happen to theses modern day Nazis............
Wall Street Journal.
In a statement after the event, Berkeley chancellor Carol Christ and executive vice chancellor Benjamin Hermalin wrote that the incident “violated not only our rules, but also some of our most fundamental values.” The letter notes that the university took precautions to add security, including campus police.
They said the goal was to keep students safe and let the event go forward, but “it was not possible to do both given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence.”
was from the article, not my comment.
These “street-muscle” tactics, where the powers that be pretend: “We don’t like violence, but we must recognize their righteous anger” are a FAVORITE tactic of the subversive Left
Hitlers SA
Mao’s Red Guards
Obama’s BLM
lots of institutional racism at UC.
in admissions
in financial aid
in hiring
in promotions
in campus funding
in organization
on campus and in the community with (mostly) foreign students from some of the most terrorist-prone places on earth all imported and collected at UC
in some campus events, seminars, talks
and in some books/papers some faculty publishes.
in simple terms, it is a racist jungle and if you’re not in the currently-approved little sociological subgroup then you’re in for some real trouble
“Your speech is violence, our violence is speech.”
That place should be dismantled and the earth it sits upon salted.
Yep
I find this comical ..: because every single person in my professional circles who attended Berkeley is JEWISH.
Dangerous useful idiots.
These Jewish students just got a real education.
A stinking armpit for decades has berserklee been.
DemocRAT voting block. I cannot believe this crap, it’s sickening.
This has become a major issue on many college campuses:
“When Capone puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the f'ing morgue!''.
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