Prior to the event, the student federal calls for “protecting Arab individuals.”
An Israeli prosecutor is scheduled to make a return to school this evening after a violent mob at the University of California Berkeley prevented him from speaking.
Lawyer Ran Bar- Yoshafat, an Israeli Defense Force senior, will offer a modified speech at the event, sponsored by Tikvah Students for Israel and another pro- Israel groups, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
His new comment will handle the Feb. 26 opposition that canceled his original speech, the Beacon reports. During the celebration, pro- Arab protesters shouted over Bar- Yoshafat, prompting school police to chaperone attendees out the rear door of the auditorium, The College Fix reported.
” I really believe this is more significant than an Jewish problem or a Jewish matter,” Bar- Yoshafat told the Free Beacon. This is because people are unwilling to even let me speak, according to the statement” Western culture is collapsing.”
His r- scheduled talk immediately received pushback from the university’s student authorities.
The Associated Students at the University of California approved a resolution on Friday that denounced Bar- Yoshafat’s remarks toward Palestinians and called for “protecting Israeli students and their friends,” according to The Daily Californian.
Sponsored by the ASUC Middle Eastern, Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian Ad- Hoc Committee, the quality” clearly encourages scholar groups to participate in and promote legal protest”. But, it even warns against violent and aggressive protesting.
However, the school promised to offer protection for the event.
A school spokesperson told the Free Beacon that” the management is working closely with the school’s police department, and the having student organization to support our commitment to protect the First Amendment rights of all.”
UC Berkeley condemned the opened- down of Bar- Yoshafat’s previous statement in a March 4 speech, calling protesters ‘ actions “unacceptable”.
This university has a long history of support and commitment for nonviolent political protest that upholds the First Amendment rights of others. That is not what occurred on Feb. 26. It was not peaceful civil disobedience. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms”, the university stated.
Additionally, it launched a criminal investigation into the Feb. 26 incidents where two Jewish students who helped organize the event were allegedly physically abused, according to the statement.
Authorities are also looking into” an additional report of illegal conduct,” including one of the student’s physical battery allegations. One criminal suspect has been identified to date, for trespassing”, the university stated.
Speaking with the Free Beacon, Bar- Yoshafat said what happened Feb. 26 is a bad sign about the future of open discourse.
” I’m not that important. I’m a low- ranking officer”, he said. ” If you’re not even willing to have a dialogue or discourse, that’s really the end of free speech, which is quite amazing, because the 1964 free speech movement started at Berkeley”.
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