CAMPUS HATE MOB
Ugly anti-Jewish rally rocks UC Berkeley
Jewish students at the University of California, Berkeley, were forced to evacuate an auditorium as antisemitic protesters banged on and eventually broke through the glass doors of a campus theater, where an Israel Defense Forces soldier was scheduled to speak.
Disturbing footage posted online by the Daily Wire shows an angry mob chanting “intifada, intifada” and banging violently on the glass doors outside Zellerbach Playhouse (right) Monday night as a small group of students gathered inside for a talk about the war in Gaza.
In one clip, a student could be heard telling his friends in the auditorium that a woman outside spat on him and called him “Jew, Jew, Jew — literally right to my face.”
Other students also claimed the protesters shoved a senior into the auditorium door as he tried to check in attendees and grabbed a freshman by the neck, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Eventually, some of the glass could be heard shattering in the online videos, and a person could be heard shouting, “You got what you deserve.”
At that time, university police reported, “They’ve breached the door,” according to dispatch audio posted online.
“Do you want us to go get our hats and bats?” one officer asked.
“We’re going to have to fight our way up the stairs to push them back to close the door,” he said.
“Negative,” the respondent says. “We’re going to be shutting down the event.”
As a result, the scheduled “Israel at War: Combat the Lies” event, featuring IDF soldier Ran Bar-Yoshafat was canceled, after already being rescheduled several times over security concerns, according to the Daily Wire
Afterward, one student said she heard the protesters chant, “We won, we won, we won,” she told the Jewish Journal.
Bar-Yoshafat said he felt “really bad for the students . . . because they were scared.”
“I don’t think the students anticipated so many people being violent, they thought they would just chant outside,” Bar-Yoshafat told the Daily Wire.
University officials estimate some 200 students took part in the violent protest Monday night, and called the incident “appalling.”
In a message sent to students and staff Tuesday afternoon, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Provost Benjamin E. Hermalin said the incident was “an attack on the fundamental values of the university.”
“We want to express our deep remorse and sympathy to those students and members of the public who were in the building, fearing for their safety,” the officials said in the statement.