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Chaos broke out this week at the home of a Jewish law school dean after he invited pro-Hamas students to dinner.
As Berkeleyside reported, UC Berkeley Law Dean Irwin Chemerinsky and his wife, law professor Kathryn Fisk, invited about 60 graduating law students to a celebratory dinner at their home on Tuesday, about They thought it would be an eventful evening.
But the matter quickly degenerated when Malak Afaneh, co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, started ranting about the school's investments in arms manufacturers for Israel. According to Berkeleyside, ten other students joined him in the protest.
Afaneh began with a Muslim greeting to mark the last night of Ramadan before concluding his rant.
Chemerinsky stopped him and repeatedly demanded him to vacate the premises. “Please leave! No, please leave. Please go,” he said.
Fisk then had physical relations with Afaneh. While filming the video, she is seen trying to snatch the Islamist agitator's cellphone from her hand, pulling her clothes including her hijab, and angrily putting her arm around Afneh and pushing her to leave.
“This is not your house. This is my house! And I want you to go!” Fisk says.
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Fisk then threatened to name the police and mentioned she didn't wish to try this.
Afaneh threatened authorized motion in response, earlier than the three-minute debate ultimately ended when he and different protesting college students walked out of the yard.
Chemerinsky defends try and drive hate protesters to depart in an interview with Los Angeles OccasionsDeclaring that his actions weren’t protected by the First Modification.
Chemerinsky defined, “Nobody has the precise to come back into my or your own home and interrupt dinner.” “As a matter of constitutional regulation, it's completely clear.”
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Moguloff issued an announcement Thursday condemning the uncontrolled protest and expressing sympathy for Chemerinsky.
I’m shocked and deeply disturbed by what occurred at Dean Chemerinsky's house final evening. I’m in contact with him to supply my assist and sympathy.
Whereas our assist without spending a dime speech is unwavering, we can not condone utilizing a social event at a person's personal residence as a platform for protest.
Afneh advised KQED that she was shaken by the incident and upset that Fisk dared to put a hand on her.
“No one thought this lady would lay fingers on me,” he mentioned. “After all, I didn’t anticipate this response. I wasn't anticipating it when it occurred. “I didn’t even get an opportunity to speak about Palestine or UC’s complicity.”