The viral video made rounds Wednesday, hours after UC Berkley law students were invited to the Oakland home of School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife.
Footage shows how what was meant to be a celebratory dinner at a dean's home for graduating students devolved into a physical fight over the Israel -Hamas war.
In a statement issued Thursday, Chemerinsky, who is Jewish, asserted that he was 'saddened' by the protest, but said he told the students his home was 'not a forum for free speech.' Others claim the duo violated the student's constitutional rights. 'It is not your house. It is my house! And I want you to leave,' she says, after being hit with the Arabic phrase that means peace and blessings to you.The video then shows Fisk looking to another student who was with the demonstrator, telling her: 'Get her to leave my house!'
After Afaneh denounced the school for having invested millions of dollars in weapons companies that supply Israel - and had just spoken the words 'as-salamu alaykum' - Fisk grabs her and tries to stop the speech in its tracks Because of this, she is pulled a up several steps of a stairwell in the couple's backyard, as Cherminsky repeatedly shouts: 'Please leave!'
The nine activists that organized the protest, Afaneh included, left shortly thereafter, both sides have confirmed, In an interview the next day, Afaneh said she felt assaulted by Fisk, and that she is considering pressing charges. 'I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism, with an image that invokes the horrible antisemitic trope of blood libel and that attacks me for no apparent reason other than I am Jewish,' he claimed.
They went on to accuse Chemerinsky, a top free speech scholar, of attempting to keep a clasp on such criticism.
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