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 canceledBari 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.
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