Monday, September 30, 2024
Protesters Force UC-Berkeley FedSoc Event On Judicial Reform in Israel To Shift Online; Dean Chemerinsky To Pursue Disciplinary Action Against Disruptive Students
Update: David Lat, Protesters Disrupt An Event At A Top Law School
Jewish News of Northern California, Architect of Israeli Judicial Coup Hounded Off Stage by Unusual Mix of Protesters at Berkeley:
Simcha Rothman, a member of Knesset and a key architect of the Israeli judicial coup, flew all the way to Northern California to drum up support for his contentious plan only to be driven off the stage within minutes by an unusual mix of Israeli and pro-Palestinian protesters.
Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Rothman had been invited to present the plan at an event hosted Tuesday by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization, at Berkeley Law School. ...
The talk was titled “Restoring Democracy: The Debate Over Judicial Reform in Israel.” Rothman is a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party. ,,,
A representative of the law school opened the event by reciting a “civility statement” and emphasizing the importance of “respectful speech.” ...
Rothman was joined on the stage for a conversation with Joshua Kleinfeld, a professor of law at George Mason University and a member of the Federalist Society. ...
As a shouting match erupted between the two groups of protesters in the auditorium, Rothman was escorted off the stage by police
SFGATE, An Israeli Lawmaker Was Forced Off Stage by Protesters at UC Berkeley:
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the university’s law school, chided the protesters in a letter sent to the community later that evening and said any students who participated in the protests will face disciplinary action.
“It cannot be in an academic institution that we only hear those messages that aren’t shouted down,” Chemerinsky wrote. “It cannot be that we tolerate protests that disrupt events and the Law School’s functioning. In my message on free speech earlier this semester, I said that student disruptors of school events would face disciplinary proceedings. We will pursue that if any students participated in disrupting the event.”
Steven Haywood (Powerline), This Disgrace at Berkeley
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