Posted on 04/25/2026 10:51:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
Berkeley’s response was to invoke free speech, insisting that the university must remain content-neutral toward protected expression. But the deeper threat to academic freedom at Berkeley is not a single student-sponsored event. It is the conduct of faculty who are using departments, speaker series, official academic programming, and university authority to turn anti-Israel activism into institutional practice.
That conduct was recently on display in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, which sponsored a talk titled “Anti-Zionism Is Not a Luxury.” The event was promoted as one that “articulates and embraces an affirmative anti-Zionism,” calls for “the end of a Zionist world,” and presents anti-Zionism as “a vital necessity of existence.”
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We continue to harbor these people.
I don't supposed they offset that with an event featuring an appearance by IDF soldiers.
Why is a “a failed Palestinian suicide bomber” even allowed to enter the US?
The crap “colleges” and “universities” in this country are a tremendous waste of time and money. Americans have enough sewage pumped up from the other side of the RIO GRANDE by the DemonRATS. We don’t need to waste all that money having the “higher educators” pumping out more.
.......“the end of a Zionist world,”......
We don’t live in a Zionist world!
This is all balderdash!!
More importantly we continue to indulge Americans who sponsor "these people" and their anti-American world views.
In this instance, the Americans are part of the decidedly leftist UC Berkeley faculty that long ago accommodated, if not accelerated, the anti-Vietnam war uprisings at west coast colleges..
A “failed suicide bomber,” also known as Chicken Marsala.
Hard to believe Mario Savio was once celebrated at UCB.
Indeed, immediately and thereafter celebrated by faculty members and fellow students as well - and memorialized after his death.
He was an intelligent guy, having earned a summa cum laude bachelors in physics. His parents were Italian immigrants and experienced discrimination firsthand in NYC. He later toured the South and viewed racial discrimination on a grand scale.
So while intelligent, he was also a prime candidate to be used as a "useful idiot" by the Left. Unfortunately, in this capacity he served them well while alive and continues to do so.
Yes, when they possibly should be promptly arrested & at least questioned. This guy sounds possibly dangerous.
Yes, when they possibly should be promptly arrested & at least questioned. This guy sounds possibly dangerous.
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