Accuracy in Media has been covering antisemitism at the University of California at Berkeley Law School for weeks. We sent a mobile billboard calling it out and then exposed the students responsible. But before moving forward, it was time to meet the students firsthand.
So AIM President Adam Guillette set out to find answers — and captured those answers, or at least the attempts to get answers, in a man-on-the-street video.
“Is it OK for Berkeley student groups to ban Jews from speaking on campus?” Guillette asked one student.
“That's not what's happening,” she said.
“What's happening?” he asked.
“It's — that's not what's happening,” she said. She then walked away.
Another student claimed that the bylaw did not ban pro-Israel speakers from speaking. But the bylaw says the following:
“We will not invite speakers that have expressed and continue to hold views… in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine,” the bylaw, written by Berkeley Law for Palestine and signed by 8 other student groups, states.
Guillette asked another student directly whether it was alright for groups to ban anybody who supports Israel.
“Yup,” she said. Guillette followed up, asking what was wrong with Israel, and that student claimed, “It's not a real state.”
In some cases, Guillette got no answer at all. One student simply said, “I want you to leave.”
Guillette asked him, “What would make it better for students on this campus?”
“You not being here,” he said. “You are not a part of our campus, you're not a part of our conversation, and you need to leave.”
Some students said that antisemitism was not an issue on their campus.
“I've never heard anything of Jewish-free spaces here,” one student said. “I've never heard from any student that they've experienced antisemitism. Everything is being wildly blown out of proportion.”
But actual Jewish students told Guillette another story. One stated that the common “rhetoric or propaganda in my [Jewish] community is, like, oh, don't go to Berkeley, they don't accept Jews. They hate you. You know, things like that.”
Another student added, “As a Jewish-identifying student, it's really scary to be on campus right now.”
The names of leaders of the groups that adopted the bylaw have already been shown on AIM's mobile billboard and driven around campus. But beginning next week, Accuracy in Media will be publishing them online so that future employers can understand the kind of person they're hiring.
This article originally appeared in Accuracy in Media. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
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It’s amazing how much hate these young people have. I thought Berkeley was supposed to be a place everyone would want to be. I can tell you now, that I wouldn’t want to be a part of that school.
The azz wipe of American so titled education: a liberal, Notcy College of tolerance? Wasn’t that their MOTO? Tolerate them but not anyone else? Well I dont tolerate them and what’s good for the goose is good for the Bigoted moron ganders of the left
Nothing short of spitting on the constitution and the rule of law
Yet in 1964 said college was home to then Free Speech??
The problem with Berkeley is the students attending it don’t have the maturity or the intelligence of the average second grader.
i will be looking for the list of these so called students that signed such and infantile and uneducated document so none of my companies hire them and I will certainly forward the list to all I know. Actions have consequences and this was very foolish on their part.
No critical thinking skills being taught at this college!
Isn’t it amazing that the so called most inclusive and tolerant university in America is the most intolerant, racist, bigoted campus in the world.
The ones that believe Israel does not have the right to exist they need to be asked what gives them the right to exist.
Well, stupidity isn’t prohibited by the Constitution. Yet taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for it by supporting Berkeley’s law school. Either the Congress, or California government, or even the U.C. Berkeley Board of Trustees should eliminate the Law School’s public funding until such time as it restores free speech to students and guest speakers.
who is teaching this stuff to the students. Going to college was a place to learn how to make a living not racism