University of California, Berkeley
The university, once known for radical political expression, has hinted it could tamp down on its faculty getting too political and possibly offending someone.
We don’t have to host pro-Zionist speakers who support Israeli apartheid—just as any other campus group can choose not to associate with politics they oppose.
Even if there are no “Jewish-free” zones here, there are quite a few places where Jews are decidedly unwelcome.
Misleading news reports created the false impression that pro-Israel voices are being silenced here. It’s just not true.
Sherri Papini pleaded guilty in April to carrying out the elaborate fake kidnapping in November 2016.
“It’s really alarming for someone who is in a position to shape the next generation of nuclear security scholars to hold such extremist views,” said one critic on campus.
The cancellation of UC-Berkeley’s Free Speech Week serves as something of an ideological Rorschach test.