The University of California at Berkeley, which for many years has been (erroneously in my view) considered the most prestigious university in the Western United States, and favorably compared to the Ivy League schools (also overrated in my view), has once again suffered a huge black eye.
On Monday night, only two months removed from the assassination of Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk, at Utah Valley University, TPUSA scheduled an event at UC Berkeley. As is true to form, a massive and violent protest broke out, thanks to the usual suspects among the pro-Marxist, pro-Palestinian, pro-anarchist, anti-West mobs. Fights broke out, and arrests were made. Here is how Fox News describes it.
Here is how the politically-correct campus newspaper, Daily Californian, described it.
These disturbances are nothing new at UCB. They are to be expected any time a conservative, pro-America, or pro-Israel event comes to campus (which is not that often). This has long been a poorly run university. The much-touted idea of free speech is a one-way street.
Like so many other so-called institutions of higher learning, UCB has long been led by a succession of chancellors and administrators who are too weak-kneed to confront the rowdy elements on campus, the outside agitators, like Antifa, the radical professors, and especially, the pro-Palestinian mobs. Worse yet, they have allowed a climate of Jew hatred to fester and grow on their campuses, making life miserable for Jewish students. And make no mistake: UC Berkeley is one of the worst offenders, arguably the worst west of the Mississippi.
One can only wonder- what kind of culture would act this way toward TPUSA only two months after its founder was assassinated on a college campus while merely holding a civil debate with those he disagreed with?
It is the same kind of culture that would rise up in support of Hamas immediately after they had committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
It is the same kind of culture that never blinked when then-candidate Donald Trump was the target of two assassination attempts, one of which cost the life of a bystander. The hate toward Trump continues unabated, to the point where another attempt is widely expected by many, including myself.
It is the same kind of culture that, only two decades after 911, could elect a man like Zohran Mamdani to be mayor of New York.
There is an element in our society that so hates everything that America stands for that events like 911, the murder of Kirk, and the attempted murder of Trump have no effect on them. Not even the most shocking of events can make them stop and think that maybe they should reconsider certain beliefs that have led to these horrible acts.
Have they so soon forgotten the deaths of Kirk, 1,200+ Israelis, and the assassination attempts on Trump? In actuality, how many actually celebrated these acts? That is the more appropriate question.
We have a big problem in our society, and it is growing. It is not just that certain people hold hate in their hearts because we are not supposed to criminalize thoughts. But when people resort to violence, threats, destruction, and denial of the rights of others, it is time to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate. It is time for campus demonstrators to be arrested once they cross the line and commit crimes. The same goes for those taking to the streets and engaging in violence and destruction.
It starts not just on our streets but in our universities, many of which have become hotbeds of Jew hatred. The offenders must be removed. They must be removed from our campuses, removed from our countries if they are foreigners, and given stiff jail terms and fines that are commensurate with the law. In that vein, the incident at UC Berkeley is reportedly going to be investigated by the US Department of Justice. I welcome that.
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