Critics immediately pounced on the anti-Semetic declarations by the nine groups, saying the bylaw creates ‘Jewish Free Zones’ on campus. The policy also effectively bans the university’s Jewish dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, from speaking, The Post added.
“Berkeley develops Jewish-free zones,” writer Kenneth Marcus wrote in an opinion column for the Jewish News Syndicate.
“If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to virtue signal that they fall victim to a deep moral shame,” he added.
“It is troubling to broadly exclude a particular viewpoint from being expressed,’ he told the Jewish News of Northern California. “Taken literally, this would mean that I could not be invited to speak because I support the existence of Israel, though I condemn many of its policies.”
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