{"id":2211505,"date":"2024-04-02T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/berkeley-student-group-shares-blood-libel-cartoon-targeting-law-school-dean\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:06:41","slug":"berkeley-student-group-shares-blood-libel-cartoon-targeting-law-school-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/berkeley-student-group-shares-blood-libel-cartoon-targeting-law-school-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley student organization distributes antisemitic cartoon attacking law school dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fberkeley-student-group-shares-blood-libel-cartoon-targeting-law-school-dean%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Berkeley Law Students for Justice\u200d in Palestine posted an\u200c anti-Semitic\u2064 cartoon depicting the Jewish dean holding bloody utensils, referencing an ancient anti-Semitic belief. The group criticized the dean&#8217;s perceived support for Israel and urged students to boycott his events. The \u2063controversial cartoon was \u200cshared on social media \u2063and later reposted with modifications. The law school and \u2064the\u200c dean have not issued \u200cofficial comments on the \u200dmatter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine depicts Jewish dean with bloody utensils <\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(Berkeley Law for Palestine Instagram)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A student group at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law published an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting the school&#8217;s dean, who is Jewish, holding bloody utensils over a dinner table, a version of the ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/blood-libel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blood libel<\/a> employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley&#8217;s chapter of Law Students for Justice in Palestine posted a cartoon depicting law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky holding a fork and knife dripping with blood over a dinner table, with the caption &#8220;No Dinner With Zionist Chem While Gaza Starves!&#8221; The graphic, which was posted on Monday, was deleted approximately half an hour later, but the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> obtained a screenshot. Shortly after, the cartoon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5OkbBTJdnC\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&#038;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reposted<\/a>, but without blood covering the utensils.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Instagram post came in response to an email from Chemerinsky last week inviting third-year law students to eat dinner in his home, according to the Law Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. The group is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/malak-a-3963ba149\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led by<\/a> Malak Afaneh, a third-year Berkeley law student who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/havpotter1\/posts\/pfbid026WcSZTHH3Jqs5m8E86njMAdujsdtDk87c4rMCwEtoSCJ5AFxHm63KW54xb5cX4t4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commended<\/a> Palestinians for their &#8220;active resistance against the apartheid state of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This dinner is the prime example of a normalization PR event that hopes to distract students from Dean Chem&#8217;s complicity and support for the genocide of the Palestinian peoples,&#8221; the group said in a caption under the cartoon. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Law Students for Justice in Palestine encouraged students to boycott &#8220;all of Chemerinsky&#8217;s events&#8221; and demand that Berkeley divest &#8220;from ALL TIES to the apartheid state of Israel.&#8221; Berkeley Law School declined to comment. Chemerinsky did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The grotesque cartoon comes after the House Committee on Education and the Workforce <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3-19-24-Foxx-Letter-to-UC-Berkeley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last month that it was requesting internal documents regarding Berkeley&#8217;s response to the outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Afaneh started at Berkeley Law in 2021, according to her LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/malak-a-3963ba149\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a>. One year later, she shared her desire to use her law degree to aid the Palestinians in their &#8220;battle for liberation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For years, Palestinians everywhere have engaged in active resistance against the apartheid state of Israel,&#8221; Afaneh wrote in a 2022 Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/havpotter1\/posts\/pfbid026WcSZTHH3Jqs5m8E86njMAdujsdtDk87c4rMCwEtoSCJ5AFxHm63KW54xb5cX4t4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>. &#8220;As a lawyer, I hope to aid in this battle for liberation, so that I and generations to come may see a Palestine free from the river to the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another student, Matt Fernandes, is a member of and organizer with Berkeley&#8217;s Law Students for Justice in Palestine. In 2022, Fernandes promoted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docdroid.net\/kmk9qsu\/lsjp-constitution-19-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bylaw<\/a> that amended the group&#8217;s constitution to include a ban on pro-Israel speakers from participating in club events. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Matt_Fernandes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Zionists of holding &#8220;positions of power&#8221; with &#8220;connections to media,&#8221; according to anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission.\t<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> in a Feb. 1 report unearthed a similar cartoon at the University of Pennsylvania. Dwayne Booth, a lecturer at Penn&#8217;s Annenberg School for Communication, published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wineglasses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student group at UC Berkeley Law depicted the Jewish dean with bloody utensils in an anti-Semitic cartoon. 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