{"id":2217663,"date":"2024-04-10T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-agitators-derail-dinner-at-home-of-uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:35:13","slug":"anti-israel-agitators-derail-dinner-at-home-of-uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-agitators-derail-dinner-at-home-of-uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters disrupt dinner at UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky&#8217;s home"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fanti-israel-agitators-derail-dinner-at-home-of-uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky%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=2217663&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>Anti-Israel protesters disrupted a dinner hosted by UC Berkeley&#8217;s \u2063Jewish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-school-deans-chastise-student-body-as-too-white\/\" title=\"Law School Deans Chastise Student Body as Too White\">law school dean<\/a> \u2064for\u2064 graduating students in response \u2063to a \u200bcontroversial blood\u200b libel cartoon. The incident, which involved \u200dMalak Afaneh, head of Berkeley Law\u200b Students for Justice in Palestine,\u200b occurred at Dean Erwin Chemerinsky&#8217;s\u2062 home and was captured in an \u200dInstagram video. The disruption followed a series of planned dinners arranged by Chemerinsky for graduating students.  <\/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<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><span>Anti-Israel hecklers crashed a Tuesday dinner that U.C. Berkeley\u2019s Jewish law school dean hosted for graduating students, days after activists <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/berkeley-student-group-shares-blood-libel-cartoon-targeting-law-school-dean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>circulated<\/span><\/a> <span>a blood libel cartoon targeting the dean and referencing the planned dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Malak Afaneh, the head of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, stood in the midst of the backyard dinner hosted by law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife while roughly 60 law students were eating. Wearing a keffiyeh and hijab, she delivered an anti-Israel speech through a microphone, according to a Wednesday statement from Chemerinsky and an Instagram <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C5khhLkLlpO\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>video<\/span><\/a><span>  from the Bay Area Palestinian Youth Movement that depicted the disruption. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Please leave our house, you are guests in our house,&#8221; Chemerinsky can be heard saying, as his wife put her arm around Afaneh. Afaneh refused to budge, stating with her eyes half-closed that &#8220;we have attorneys&#8221; and that the disruption at the private home was their &#8220;First Amendment right.&#8221; Ultimately Afaneh left with about 10 other students who had accompanied her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The disruption came a week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgetown-student-bar-association-asks-students-to-list-pronouns-in-solidarity-with-transgender-peers\/\" title=\"Georgetown Student Bar Association Asks Students to List Pronouns \u2018In Solidarity\u2019 with Transgender Peers\">law school\u2019<\/a>s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine posted a cartoon on Instagram showing Chemerinsky holding a fork and knife dripping with blood over the dinner, captioned with &#8220;No Dinner With Zionist Chem While Gaza Starves.&#8221; This post was deleted soon after it was posted last Monday, then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5OkbBTJdnC\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&#038;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>shared<\/span><\/a><span>  again without blood on the utensils. Posters with the image were also distributed on bulletin boards around the law school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Activists distributed these graphics after Chemerinsky announced three consecutive nights of dinners\u2014starting Tuesday\u2014for graduating law students who, because they had entered Berkeley during the COVID-19 lockdowns, had missed out on his usual tradition of inviting all first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-school-student-letter-details-culture-of-bullying-at-university-of-north-carolina\/\" title=\"Law School Student Letter Details \u2018Culture Of Bullying\u2019 At University Of North Carolina\">-year law students<\/a> into his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chemerinsky referenced the blood libel cartoon in his statement, noting that students had complained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I never thought I would see such blatant anti-Semitism, with an image that invokes the horrible anti-Semitic trope of blood libel and that attacks me for no apparent reason other than I am Jewish,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Although many complained to me about the posters and how it deeply offended them, I felt that though deeply offensive, they were speech protected by the First Amendment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The dean, who did not respond to a request for comment, said that the dinners scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday would go forward as planned, but he would hire security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Any student who disrupts will be reported to student conduct and a violation of the student conduct code is reported to the Bar,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Afaneh, a third-year Berkeley law student, has<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/havpotter1\/posts\/pfbid026WcSZTHH3Jqs5m8E86njMAdujsdtDk87c4rMCwEtoSCJ5AFxHm63KW54xb5cX4t4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>commended<\/span><\/a><span>  Palestinians for their &#8220;active resistance against the apartheid state of Israel.&#8221; In its Instagram post, the Bay Area Palestinian Youth Movement accused Chemerinsky of &#8220;assaulting&#8221; a &#8220;Palestinian Muslim Hijabi law student.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p>Chemerinsky as law school dean went viral last year for telling students how he gets around bans on affirmative action discriminatory hiring practices\u2014according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1674548940522549248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1674876684540186625%7Ctwgr%5Ea87e8e9a5440cad12252f8aec5d8030466b3660e%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-12253931%2FWhite-Berkeley-Law-dean-tells-class-illegally-discriminates-hiring-boost-diversity.html\">recording<\/a> obtained by conservative journalist Christopher Rufo.<\/p>\n<p>Chemerinsky said that in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fcc-to-make-broadcasters-publicly-post-race-and-gender-scorecard-of-all-employees\/\" title=\"FCC mandates broadcasters to publicly display diversity 'scorecard' for employees' race and gender\">making hiring decisions based<\/a> on racial diversity, &#8220;You can think it, you can vote it, but our discussions are not privileged, so don\u2019t ever articulate that that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing,&#8221; according to the viral clip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Israel protesters interrupted a dinner hosted by U.C. 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