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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Satanic Nazis.
knife to a gunfight
Hire some private security for the event and simply do not allow the interruption of someone who has paid money to use the space. Drive them away with a shotgun and if you have to. Call the friggen cops!
Here is a long article on this topic:
Here are some of the key quotes:
“At a Shabbat dinner I attended at one college, students went around the table sharing what they wished they could say to their non-Jewish friends: I wish I could say I want to spend a semester in Israel. I wish I could say I work at a Jewish preschool. I wish I could say I volunteered at a Jewish hospital. I sat at the table stupefied. They were in hiding.”
“Jewish students could no longer expect to be able to study in the library, eat in dining halls, or attend class without being repeatedly told by their classmates, sometimes through a bullhorn, that Jews are genocidal murderers deserving of perpetual intifada.”
“At the law school, hundreds of protesters marched through a classroom building during classes. Jewish students reported being targeted and chased through a building by their screaming peers. One video from the business school showed a Jewish student being physically harassed, accosted by protesters who surrounded him with their kaffiyehs.”
“The mountain of proof at Harvard revealed a reality in which Jewish students’ access to their own university (classes, teachers, libraries, dining halls, public spaces, shared student experiences) was directly compromised”
Used to work with an electrical engineer that got his degree at Berkeley. Seems the engineering college was at the top of a hill and the lunchtime entertainment was sitting on the side of the hill eating lunch and watching the liberal arts rioters at the bottom of the hill get their heads bashed in by the cops
Fun Guy, seriously warped sense of humor. He’s long gone.
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If you look at history, you will find that the particular form of antisemitic that the Nazis espoused was a product of the universities.
The most eye-opening experience I had (outside of the Holy Spirit amplifying the Word to me ) was reading the transcripts of the Nuremberg war crimes trials; it consists of 15-22 volumes; the first volume was called “The doctor trials”; it was so graphic that it was difficult to read.
They can be found online but any decent college library should have them.
It’ll take another Kent State.
May I steal that?
Named after Isadore Zellerbach.
Probably Jewish. Family names could be. Active with Congregation Emanu-El. Father’s name Antone, changed to Anthony.
This is the same Berkeley that had riots and willfully withheld police when Milo Yiannopoulos spoke there in 2017. (about free speech of all things)
EE grad from UC at that time — I’m guessing the FSM period.
I was far more liberal then but I still could not join the Libs in their protest as I had too much HW to do. You see EE classes did not shut down like the Econ classes. I did get to watch some of the events before the police arived. It was an exciting time, but no antisemitism then. That all came later with the bocott movement and the media convincing the weak minded that it was all Israel’s fault. (Yes, I’m Jewish BTW.and I did go back to Cal to watch a football game last year. But I went in disguise.)
Berkeley believed in “free speech” until the leftists seized power.
Then they decided any opposition was “hate speech”.
Right? I loved how he would say “Thus endth the lesson’’.
Seriously Jewish people need to start fighting back. One’s life is a gift from God and one has an obligation to defend it. Take the fight to these little Muslim punks and make them feel real fear and physical pain.
Pain is a great teacher. As a Christian I say “Praise the Lord! And pass the ammunition.’’
But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.
(Posted for those who have said that Israel SHOULD have known about HAMAS Oct. 7 plan)
“Shouting down unpopular speakers “
WSJ bias...they could have more appropriately described it as “intolerant students den6 free speech”
That would be accurate. 8n their description they are implying a justification for thugs behavior.
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