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A student group at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law published an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting the school's dean, who is Jewish, holding bloody utensils over a dinner table, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.
Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine depicts Jewish dean with bloody utensils.
“No city is going to solve homelessness by criminally prosecuting the unhoused,” writes UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
No venue of American life is more fraught with the tension between safety and censorship than the American college campus. Since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, that tension has peaked as campuses across the country erupted with pro-Hamas demonstrations and, in many cases, hostile speech and actions against Jewish students and faculty.
The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America.