UCLA Cancels Campus Talk by Bari Weiss After Students Petition Against It
“A final decision has not yet been made on whether Weiss – who was slated to speak about the future of journalism – will conduct the lecture virtually”
Weiss has become a hated figure on the left because she is perceived as insufficiently anti-Trump.
The Daily Bruin reports:
CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ UCLA on-campus lecture canceled
Bari Weiss will no longer come to campus Feb. 27 to deliver the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations announced Wednesday.
Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, was scheduled to speak at Schoenberg Hall on Feb. 27. While the campus lecture is off, Weiss is still hoping to conduct the lecture over Zoom, said Margaret Peters, the associate director of the Burkle Center, in a texted statement.
A final decision has not yet been made on whether Weiss – who was slated to speak about the future of journalism – will conduct the lecture virtually, Peters added in the statement.
The annual lecture, organized by the Burkle Center, has previously hosted journalists and international relations scholars including Jake Tapper, Bob Woodward, Condoleezza Rice and Anderson Cooper…
A petition demanding that the Burkle Center cancel the event received nearly 11,000 signatures. The petition cited Weiss’ alleged alignment with the Trump administration – including through her choice to pull the 60 Minutes segment – as reasoning for why she should not give the speech and accused her of making xenophobic comments.
Peters, who is also the Department of Political Science’s vice chair for graduate studies, said she plans to resign as associate director of the Burkle Center if it follows through with the event in any capacity.
Update:
Further clarification and emphasis: There is a great deal of misinformation and hateful noise circulating.
To be absolutely clear: UCLA did not cancel Bari Weiss. It was Bari’s/CBS’s security team that requested a postponement due to insufficient safety measures, to their… https://t.co/IpKozAnn3K— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) February 19, 2026
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Communist/socialists cancelling liberals now. Ignorant and uninformed.
so nowwww they are concerned with the lefts being a security risk
sounds like just another opportunity to shut down “unwanted” free speech/thoughts
“Peters, who is also the Department of Political Science’s vice chair for graduate studies, said she plans to resign as associate director of the Burkle Center if it follows through with the event in any capacity.”
Well… bye.
She will resign that position. She’s not giving up her salary.
Why are Tapper and Cooper there? They are neither journalists nor international scholars.