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Would-Be Palestinian Suicide Bomber Is APPLAUDED as She Appears Before Woke Berkeley Students
- On Monday, students at Berkeley Law hosted a virtual classroom event with Israa Jaabis, a convicted Palestinian car bomber, in Room 170. The session was titled "Teach-in: Palestinian: Palestinian Political Prisoners Day."
- Jaabis was convicted of detonating a car bomb at the Adumim junction in 2015, severely injuring Israeli police officer Moshe Chen. She was released in November 2023 during a prisoner exchange involving hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
- During the Teach-in, Jaabis thanked attendees for solidarity, stating, "Your attendance in particular as law students makes us hopeful that there remains some humanity." Promotional materials invited students to "hear the experiences of Palestinian torture survivors."
- The LawFare Project condemned the event as "institutional normalization of terrorism." A university spokesperson responded that UC Berkeley must support the First Amendment and lacks legal ability to censor constitutionally protected expression.
- Promotional materials shared by SJP drew scrutiny over academic freedom boundaries. Critics argue that "academic freedom does not include platforming terrorists," highlighting tensions on campus regarding political discourse and speaker selection.
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Terrorist lecture at UC Berkeley — symptom of a much bigger problem
A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s October 7 attack. Berkeley’s response was to invoke free speech, insisting that the university must remain content-neutral toward protected expression. But...
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UC Berkeley Law Hosts Convicted Terrorist on ‘Palestinian Political Prisoners Day’
UC Berkeley allowed a convicted Palestinian car bomber, released in the October 7, 2023, Hamas hostage deal, to address students via video from a Berkeley Law School classroom on Monday. The event, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) groups, drew applause from a full room of attendees. Israa Jaabis, who was convicted of an attempted car bombing in Jerusalem in 2015, spoke by video call to students at Berkeley Law school classro…
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