A Jewish professor is depicted in a photo by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine with terrible dishes.
The film, which was posted by Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine, features law college dean Erwin Chemerinsky holding a fork and knife dripping with blood over a dining table. The message reads” No Dinner With Zionist Chem While Gaza Starves”! The graphic, which was posted on Monday, was deleted approximately half an hour later, but the Washington Free Beacon obtained a screenshot. Shortly after, the cartoon was reposted, but without blood covering the utensils.
According to the Law Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, Chemerinsky sent an email to third-year law students inviting them to eat dinner at his home last week. Malak Afaneh, a third-year Berkeley law student who has praised Palestinians for their “active resistance against the apartheid state of Israel,” serves as the group’s leader.
The group stated in a caption under the cartoon that” this dinner is the prime example of a normalization PR event that hopes to divert students from Dean Chem’s complicity and support for the genocide of the Palestinian peoples.” ” While Dean Chem wants to wine and dine his students, he continues to approve of UC investments into weapons companies like Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop, and more”.
Students were urged by Law Students for Justice in Palestine to” shyonor all of Chemerinsky’s events” and demand that Berkeley “destroy ALL TIES the apartheid state of Israel.” The Berkeley Law School made no comment. A request for comment was not returned by Chemerinsky.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced last month that it was looking for internal documents regarding Berkeley’s response to the rising anti-Semitism on campus. The grotesque cartoon follows this announcement.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Afaneh started at Berkeley Law in 2021. She stated a year later that she wanted to use her law degree to support the Palestinians in their “battle for liberation.”
Palestinians have been active resistance against the apartheid state of Israel for years, according to Afaneh in a Facebook post for 2022. As a lawyer, I want to aid in this struggle for freedom so that generations to come will witness a Palestine that is free of the river to the sea.
Another student, Matt Fernandes, is a member of and organizer with Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine. Fernandes promoted a bylaw in 2022 that made it illegal for pro-Israel speakers to speak at club events. He also accused Zionists of operating in “positions of power” and having” connections to the media,” according to anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission.
A request for comment was not received by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
The Free Beacon in a Feb. 1 report unearthed a similar cartoon at the University of Pennsylvania. Dwayne Booth, a lecturer at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, published a slew of anti- Semitic cartoons, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wineglasses.
