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The Situation: 9 teams at Berkeley which have adopted a rule forbidding pro-Israel audio system at occasions.
The bylaw barring pro-Israel audio system, adopted by 9 UC Berkeley Faculty of Regulation pupil teams, is anti-Semitic in each intent and impact (“ ‘Jewish-free’ zones,” Oct. 1).
Satirically, it's a testomony to the ethical and mental shallowness of its supporters, because it tacitly acknowledges their incapability to have interaction in debate with educated supporters of Israel and Zionism.
Nonetheless, one can not take this discrimination frivolously. The teams’ de facto exclusion of Jews from public college occasions calls to thoughts the “no canines or Jews allowed” indicators that my mother recalled seeing as a baby.
The Ken Burns docuseries “The US and the Holocaust” that lately aired on PBS is a well timed reminder of the place such anti-Jewish bigotry can lead.
Stephen A. Silver
San Francisco, Calif.
So UC Berkeley college students need a campus that's Judenrein. That’s the phrase the Nazis used to declare an space freed from Jews.
It's completely disgusting that a public or any college can set such anti-Semitic coverage.
Are there no elected officers who've the center to say that is morally obscene? This college will get funds from the state and federal authorities. Maybe funding ought to be reduce off to a campus that's Judenrein.
J.J. Levine
Miami Seashore, Fla.
The 9 pupil teams at UC Berkeley which have banned Jewish audio system are goose-stepping within the Jew-hating custom of Joseph Goebbels and his brownshirts.
The directors at UC Berkeley, together with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who're allowing this Jew-hatred to embed itself in campus life are demonstrating the emasculated character that German college directors did within the Thirties when confronted with anti-Semitism.
Clearly, at UC Berkeley the anti-Semites are working the asylum.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
It seems that a number of particular curiosity teams at Berkeley have united of their opposition to anybody who helps Israel.
Just about all of those teams are possible supporters of the Democratic Social gathering, and can vote Democrat within the subsequent election.
Many Jews stay stalwart supporters of the identical occasion. My query is: Why? Is it not abundantly clear that the progressive left-wing socialists help Palestine and are virulently anti-Semitic?
Robert Mangi
Westbury
Boycotts have been common because the Boston Tea Social gathering, however advocating for the slaughter of considered one of our most necessary allies is racist, whether or not by ignorance or malice.
There may be nothing peaceable in regards to the Boycott, Divest and Sanction motion in so a lot of our universities.
Till Jewish college students are once more bodily protected in universities and be at liberty to precise their opinions in school and are free from harassment, human rights on campus is a fiction.
Len Bennett
Deerfield Seashore, Fla.
There's a common conception — delusion, really — that Israel is an evil state with a genocidal agenda towards the Palestinians.
Individuals who journey to Israel to see for themselves perceive that this wicked imaginative and prescient is completely unfaithful, but it's metastasizing in American universities.
Pupil and trainer organizations have adopted the Palestinian victimhood narrative, leading to “Jewish-free zones.”
Larry Shapiro
Calgary, Canada
Fascism is alive and nicely in America, however opposite to what the liberal orthodoxy assumes and what our divider-in-chief has publicly seconded, it doesn’t reside in MAGA nation.
It resides at Berkeley Regulation Faculty with its new bylaw establishing “Jewish-free” zones.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
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