Pro-Palestine protesters have sabotaged a university dinner in protest after being invited by a “Zionist” protest.
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School, was hosting their annual spring celebration for around 60 students alongside his wife, professor Catherine Fisk.
Video footage showed a Berkley law student, supposedly identified as Malak Afaneh, being challenged by the couple.
She was speaking into the microphone on the steps of their home, near the Californian campus.
Video footage showed a Berkley law student, supposedly identified as Malak Afaneh, being challenged by the couple
Professor Fisk said: “Leave. This is not your house, this is my house.”
Professor Chemerinsky added: “Please leave our house. You are guests in our house.”
Afaneh is co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
The group had already called for a boycott of the annual dinner.
It published a disturbing cartoon of the dean holding a fork and knife covered in blood.
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Malak Afaneh was speaking into the microphone on the steps of their home, near the Californian campus.
The accompanying caption said: “No dinner with Zionist Chem while Gaza starves.
“This dinner is the prime example of a normalisation PR event that hopes to distract students from Dean Chem’s complicity and support for the genocide of the Palestinian peoples.”
Professor Chemerinsky, who is Jewish, said: “While guests were eating, a woman stood up with a microphone, stood on the top step in the yard, and began a speech, including about the plight.”
He added: “My wife and I immediately approached her and asked her to stop and leave.
“When she continued, there was an attempt to take away her microphone.
“Repeatedly, we said to her that you are a guest in our home, please stop and leave.
An image of the social media cartoon calling for students to boycott the dinner
“About 10 students were clearly with her and ultimately left as a group.”
Chemerinsky condemned the “blatant” antisemitism shown in the pamphlets and spoke out about the incident on April 9.
He said: “On April 9, about 60 students came to our home for the dinner.
“All had registered in advance. All came into our backyard and were seated at tables for dinner.
“The dinner, which was meant to celebrate graduating students, was obviously disrupted and disturbed.
“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”
