How much longer are American schools going to tolerate this unhinged and infantile behavior?
The Jerusalem Post reports:
UNLV police end Israeli professor’s black holes lecture after protestAn Israeli physics professor’s lecture on black holes was ended by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after pro-Palestinian protesters burst into the room on Tuesday afternoon, Bar Ilan University physics department Professor Asaf Peer and the UNLV told The Jerusalem Post.Peer said that he was 15 minutes into his guest lecture when a group of protesters entered the room with banners and flags. Students in the room looked shocked and embarrassed, according to the professor. Peer invited the activists to stay and learn about black holes and said that they could talk about unrelated issues after the lecture.The students held signs that protested the death of Islamic University of Gaza president and physicist Sufyan Tayeh. Reuters reported that the Palestinian Higher Education Ministry announced that Tayeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 2. Other signs accused Peer of supporting “genocide,” with mention of an organization called Tax Payers for Peace.”Hey Asaf Peer! Because of 1948’s Nakba in Palestine, you were able to obtain your Ph.D. in illegally occupied Ramat Gan. Is that why you support genocide?” read the signs. “Didn’t higher education teach us to be ethical? Why is the administration supporting speakers who openly support genocide?”The protesters continued to shout, and the campus police were summoned. Peer said that the police told him that they could not remove the protesters because it was a public event and their expulsion would constitute an infringement of free speech rights.A UNLV spokesperson said that the public event was ended early by a staff decision in response to the interruptions.“University Police then arrived and accompanied the guest lecturer to his vehicle as a safety precaution,” said UNLV public affairs director Francis McCabe.
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