RefuseFascism.org, the anti-Trump organization that has been active since the election, has smeared Ben Shapiro as a “white supremacist” and “fascist thug” ahead of the right-wing pundit’s speech at U.C. Berkeley scheduled for later this month. “Fascist thug & white supremacist Ben Shapiro is coming to UC Berkeley – The issue is not ‘Free Speech.’…
Ben Shapiro, the conservative pundit and Daily Wire editor, is planning to give a talk at U.C. Berkeley in September, a free-speech test for a campus that has erupted in protest and sometimes violence against events featuring right-wing figures. “I look forward to speaking to students of all viewpoints at Berkeley,” Shapiro said Sin a…
During the Tax Day protests across the country on April 15, Antifa — short for anti-fascist — protestors at the University of California at Berkeley gathered to oppose both President Donald Trump and conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who was scheduled to speak at the school. The alt-right came out in droves, some driving hundreds of…
On April 15th, in Berkeley, we saw an increasingly familiar scene – violence at a political demonstration. At a “Patriots Day” rally, pro-Trump demonstrators, many of them self avowed fascists and Nazis, violently clashed with anti-fascist protestors (commonly referred to as “antifa”). Nazis were punched, Antifa members were punched, and less fringe commentators from each side…
(JTA) — The University of California, Berkeley, received its biggest art grant ever to acquire the world’s largest collection by the Jewish-Polish artist Arthur Szyk and display it in a public institution for the first time. The $10.1 million gift from the Taube Philanthropies will be used to acquire 450 artworks — including paintings, drawings and sketches — according to a statement. The…
Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart editor and far-right provocateur, was prevented from speaking at U.C. Berkeley Wednesday night, after protests turned violent and prompted security threats that led to the event’s cancellation. “Don’t give up. They cannot win. They will not win,” he wrote on his Facebook page after the campus authorities canceled the talk. According…
The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week. The syllabus said it would “explore the connection between Zionism and settler colonialism” — settler colonialism being when a foreign people, with imperial backing, take control of a region by moving…
It never should have come to this. A credit-bearing, student-taught course at UC Berkeley entitled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” which was already underway, was suspended on September 13 by the Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences because “the policies and procedures governing the review and approval of proposed courses…were not complied with…
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