"Pro-Palestine Protester Disrupts UC Berkeley Law Dean's Dinner, Sparks Free Speech Debate"

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Source: The Telegraph
"Pro-Palestine Protester Disrupts UC Berkeley Law Dean's Dinner, Sparks Free Speech Debate"
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Pro-Palestine students disrupted a private dinner hosted by the Jewish dean of Berkeley Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, and his wife, professor Catherine Fisk, with a protest against the "Zionist" professor. The students, led by a co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, used a microphone to voice their grievances, prompting the couple to ask them to leave. The dean condemned the use of anti-Semitic imagery and expressed sadness over the disruption of the dinner meant to celebrate graduating students.

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