Jewish Environmentalist on Oakland City Council Disinvited From Speaking to Students at UC-Berkeley Over Pro-Israel Social Media Posts
“after students discovered what they considered to be pro-Israel social media posts”
This man identifies as a progressive, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Will there be any consequences for this?
Jewish News of Northern California reports:
Jewish environmentalist on Oakland City Council disinvited from speaking to UC Berkeley class
A progressive environmental advocate and longtime Oakland City Council member was disinvited from addressing a UC Berkeley environmental policy class after students discovered what they considered to be pro-Israel social media posts, questioned the “legitimacy” of his views on environmental activism and accused him of supporting “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.”
Dan Kalb, 64, has spent decades working on environmental policy in the nonprofit sector, advocating for clean energy, combating climate change and working on other conservation priorities.
He was invited to address an undergraduate course called Environmental Problem Solving, something he’d done a few times in previous semesters. He planned to share his experience advocating for climate policy at the local and state level, both as a nonprofit professional with groups like the Sierra Club and as a lawmaker.
But in the weeks leading up to Kalb’s Nov. 21 presentation, a group of students looked into his background and found social media posts that they said promoted “pro-Israeli propaganda.” Days prior to the event, Kurt Spreyer, the course instructor and an adjunct professor, contacted Kalb and shared a strongly worded letter that had been composed and co-signed by more than 30 students.
The letter, which was seen by J., alleged a litany of crimes committed by Israel, including environmental harms that the students said “forever chang[ed] the ecology of a once flourishing community and landscape.” The letter accused Kalb of playing an “active role in retweeting and spreading pro-Israeli propaganda, which often equates pro-Palestinian voices as ‘anti-Semitic.’”
Kalb is a familiar face at Oakland Jewish community events and has served on the city council since 2013. He considers himself a liberal supporter of Israel and a “passionate supporter of Israel’s right to exist,” he said. He was baffled when he read the letter; he called it “crazy.”
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Did they also disinvite Muslims from raping jews in accordance with sharia — which is likely going on daily in Gaza , including today
What kind of human beings show support for rapists and rapists’ enablers?
NOW do you understand what sort of people are on the Left?
Lefties in circular firing squad. People’s Democratic Republic of Berkeley.
Memo for Kalb: You thought your lefty credentials would give you a pass. That’s so cute. You’re like the German Jewish WW I vets who waved their medals at the SS guards even as they were being .marched to the gas chambers.
The joys of intersectionality.
When the center cannot hold, neither can the grievance matrix.
Apparently big fans of Hamas burning acres & acres of Israel during the March of Return, including crops & nature preserves, causing ecological damage that will take decades to recover. Not to mention digging up water & sewer pipes to turn into rockets, then complaining there’s no clean water.
Meanwhile Israel is a pioneer in water reclamation, water desalination & in solar technology that actually works.
“If liberals did not have double standards they’d have no standards at all.”
– Chris Plante (amongst others, I suppose)
This is the anti American and anti Semitic left in full display
UC Berkeley grad has gained national attention for allegedly filming a sex tape in a U.S. Senate hearing room.
I remember back in the ’60s when a thing called The Berkeley Free Speech Movement happened. I guess they decided it wasn’t such a good idea after all. I wonder if the living members of that group have anything to say about what’s going on there now.