If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech It Will Expel Its Rioters | The Free Press

It s said that civilization was founded the moment a man flung a word at his enemy instead of a spear. On our most elite college campuses most recently, the University of California, Berkeley the plan seems to be to unfound it.

Earlier this week, a student group called Bears for Palestine published on Instagram its intention of combatting lies by shutting down an event featuring Israeli Defense Forces reservist and lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat.

This individual is dangerous, the post continued. He has committed crimes against humanity, is a genocide denier, and we will not allow for this event to go on. . . . SHUT IT DOWN.

Before the event was scheduled to begin Monday evening, hundreds of student protesters descended on the building where it was supposed to take place banging on doors and windows, preventing students from entering, forcing their way in, and shouting intifada, intifada.  

Protesters broke glass doors. One male student alleges being spit on by a protester. Another student a woman was injured. Yet another student claims that Jew was screamed as an epithet.

The mob got their way. The event was canceled. Bar-Yoshafat, along with the students who had attended the event, were escorted out the back of the theater. 

This has to stop.

via www.thefp.com

Greg Luklanoff (PBUH) and Angel Eduardo.