Berkeley Eats Its Own

[Dashinka 24,589]

Consequences.

 

Berkeley Eats Its Own

 

At the first of the dinners, with dozens of students seated in Chemerinsky’s backyard, Malak Afaneh, co‑president of LSJP, arose with a microphone and launched into a speech. The rest is captured on video. Chemerinsky politely asks Afaneh to leave. Having slept through her constitutional law course, apparently, Afaneh insists that she is legally entitled to address a captive audience at a private residence. (“The National Lawyers Guild has informed us this is our First Amendment right,” she says. She should find better representation.) Chemerinsky’s wife then attempts to grab the microphone and places her hand on Afaneh’s shoulder, and subsequently her arm. (Chemerinsky would later state that Afaneh “shoved” his wife, but this is not evident in the footage.) Afaneh promptly shifts to victim mode, lecturing Chemerinsky about his wife’s “assault” on a “Muslim Palestinian hijabi student,” and declaring that they’ll be hearing from her lawyers. Afaneh and several other students then left the premises.

 

Afaneh and her supporters have used the event as a launching pad for a cry-bullying campaign. The school’s pro-Palestine faculty group announced that it “stand[s] with Malak,” and “condemn[s] the violent and racist actions” of Chemerinsky and his wife. The LSJP, meantime, insisted that a “Palestinian Muslim” had suffered an unprovoked attack. The group published a truncated video of the confrontation, then accused Chemerinsky of engaging in a “pattern” of “disingenuity.” They claimed that he has “led the charge in suppressing Palestinian liberation work at the law school,” and called on him and his wife (a fellow law professor) to resign.

 

Chemerinsky said that he was “deeply saddened” by what took place. But what is he going to do about it? As the posters, the interrupted dinner, and the post-disruption spin show, Berkeley Law is beset by self-absorbed, belligerent activists. The school is also riddled with anti-Semitic student groups that allegedly ban “Zionist” speakers, or require leaders to attend a “Palestine 101” training session (held by the good folks at LSJP). Perhaps the school should reorient its admissions process to find people who—heaven forfend—just want to focus on obtaining a sound legal education? Chemerinsky, as dean, is uniquely well positioned to push things in that direction, but almost certainly won’t. On this front, in fact, he was last seen, caught by secret camera, explaining how to smuggle discriminatory standards into the school’s faculty hiring process.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/berkeley-eats-its-own

[Boiler 45,657]

I saw this and sometimes you think you can not make it up. But when you think of it there are so many years of precedents what do you expect when you lay with the Devil?

 

They must know what is likely to happen.

 

Anyway here is a Colorado contribution from one of my favourite biatches.

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,497]

3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

At the first of the dinners, with dozens of students

"How many people are we having for dinner tonight, Dear?" asked the cannibal.

[Dashinka 24,589]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

I saw this and sometimes you think you can not make it up. But when you think of it there are so many years of precedents what do you expect when you lay with the Devil?

 

They must know what is likely to happen.

 

Anyway here is a Colorado contribution from one of my favourite biatches.

 

 

I have to ask, is "Hijabi" politically correct?

[TBoneTX 45,497]

16 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I have to ask, is "Hijabi" politically correct?

Hijabx