Faculty and Students at UC-Berkeley Hold Anti-Trump Protest Over Mahmoud Khalil
“We reject efforts by government officials to harass, deport, and silence members of our community, as well as to dictate our curricula and policies”
It’s hilarious to hear these people claim that they’re all for free expression. I guess they weren’t there a few years ago when Ann Coulter was supposed to speak on campus and students nearly burned the school down.
CBS News reports:
UC Berkeley faculty, supporters rally against Trump administration threats
Faculty, students and supporters at the University of California, Berkeley rallied on campus Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s actions and threats regarding college protests and curriculum.
The rally began around 12:30 p.m. at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. Organizers said it was in response to what they called unlawful threats from the administration and the U.S. Department of Justice, which has in recent days targeted pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
On March 8, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained activist Mahmoud Khalil who helped lead Columbia University’s student encampment protests last year, which spread to other universities including UC Berkeley. Khalil’s attorney said officials told them his green card was being revoked; he was being held at a federal detention facility in Louisiana.
Among the flurry of executive orders after his inauguration, President Trump called for aggressive action to fight antisemitism on college campuses, promising to prosecute offenders and revoke visas for international students found to be “Hamas sympathizers.”
UC Berkeley is among 60 universities under federal investigation for alleged antisemitic discrimination stemming from campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks. A letter from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to the schools said they would face enforcement actions under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act “to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”…
“We reject efforts by government officials to harass, deport, and silence members of our community, as well as to dictate our curricula and policies,” said a statement from Wednesday’s protest organizers. “We rally to defend our right to think freely, to disagree constructively, and to teach, learn, and conduct research without censorship, loyalty tests, or threats.”
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Keep screaming at the clouds, kids.
It’s a bigger waste of your assigned time on earth than scrolling TikTok. And we win.
Not a good look Berkley not that Berkley cares.
“We reject efforts by government officials … to dictate our curricula and policies”
Isn’t that what Ole Miss and U of Alabama etc. said when the government threatened to withhold federal grants, contracts, and scholarships from racially segregated institutions 65 years ago?
Pull all federal funding from all institutions of “higher learning”. Let them all exist on tuition, endowments, whatever. Remove their taxing status and make them pay taxes like any other business. Including property taxes.
No problem. Reality is gonna suck for the faculty and administrators if this is done.
Berkeley Free Speech Movement…RIP.
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