A celebratory dinner at the home of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky descended into chaos this week after a pro-Palestinian student launched into a heated speech about the Israel-Hamas war and refused to leave. Ta.
The incident occurred on Tuesday evening, when several soon-to-be law school graduates attended three backyard dinners at the Oakland home of leftist Chemerinsky and his wife, law school professor Katherine. It happened after I was invited to one of our events. Fisk.
The first dinner, held in the couple’s garden, began with Malak Afaneh, a Palestinian-American law student at the school and co-president of the Berkeley Law Students Association for Palestine Justice, approaching a set of stairs and giving a speech. The attempt was immediately aborted. About those killed in Gaza as a result of the war in the Middle East.
Video footage of the confrontation between Mr. Afaneh and his wife was shared online, showing students demanding that the university divest from companies involved in Israel’s wars. The footage also showed Chemerinsky and his wife repeatedly begging the student to leave the dinner and leave the property.
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A celebratory dinner held Tuesday at the home of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky was canceled after a pro-Palestinian student began giving a heated speech about the Israel-Hamas war and refused to leave. Ta.
Fisk approached Afaneh, who was standing with a microphone and reading a book on his cell phone, and tried to grab the student’s cell phone and microphone.
“Today we gather here to commemorate our last weeks as law students,” the students said. “Tonight also marks the last night of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for millions of Muslims from around the world.”
Afterwards, Fisk appears to have approached Afane and put his arm around her in an attempt to move her aside.
“Get out,” Fisk told the student. “This is not your home. This is my home.”
“Please stop touching her,” another student can be heard saying in the video. “There’s no need to be aggressive.”
“We have lawyers,” Mr. Afaneh told Mr. Fisk.
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“Please get out of the house,” Chemerinsky told the students. “You are our guests.”
Afane claimed it was his First Amendment right to speak at a backyard dinner, and Chemerinsky said, “This is my home. The First Amendment doesn’t apply.” .
Malak Afaneh is a Palestinian-American law student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as co-president of the Berkeley Law Students Association for Justice in Palestine.
Fisk told the students they were no longer “welcome” to the event and threatened to call the police, but Afaneh responded, “Okay, you can call the police.”
Fisk grabbed Afane’s microphone and began leading her up the stairs to continue her speech.
“If you don’t want to be here, get out of the house,” Chemerinsky said during the scuffle.
Mr. Fisk was then heard telling Mr. Afane that he had not been invited to the dinner “for this purpose.”
“As Muslim students, we talk about Ramadan and the holy month of Ramadan,” the student responded. “We refuse to break our fast against Palestinian blood. The UC has promised to send $2 billion to weapons manufacturers…”
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Afaneh later told Fisk that she would tell people how she “pulled a Muslim woman’s headscarf during Ramadan,” adding: “Putting your hand on my hijab is unacceptable.”
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, at his home in Oakland, California, on January 19, 2021. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Afane later claimed that Fisk had assaulted her, but Chemerinsky became visibly furious and denied it again, telling her to “get out of the house right now!”
In a statement regarding the incident, Chemerinsky said It was with “deep sadness” that the dinner was “interrupted and disrupted” by a student who “got up with a microphone, stood on the top step of the garden and started giving a speech about the plight of Palestinians, etc.” writing.
“My wife and I immediately approached her and told her to stop and leave. The woman continued. When she continued, we tried to take the microphone away,” he recalled. “We told her many times that you are a guest in her home and she asked us to stop and leave. About 10 students were apparently with her and eventually left as a group.
“I am deeply disappointed that there are students who are so rude as to come into my house and backyard and use this social gathering for their own political agenda,” he added.
Noting that other dinners will continue to be held with security guards present, Chemerinsky said he hoped there would be “no disruption” and that “home is not a place for free speech.” insisted.
Irwin Chemerinsky speaks on stage at the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards honoring the 2017 recipients at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on August 7, 2017.
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“Students who disrupt student behavior will be reported to the Student Code of Conduct, and violations of the Student Code of Conduct will be reported to court,” he added. “I am deeply saddened by these incidents and take comfort in the fact that only a small number of students behave in this clearly inappropriate manner.”
Before the dinner, Chemerinsky said there was a “terrible poster” that read: spread on social media And on a school bulletin board in the law school building, he is pictured holding a “bloody knife and fork with the words ‘No dinner with Zionist chemists while Gaza is starving’ written in large letters.” It was drawn.
