“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)

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The Alegmeiner—Student Leader: With New Speakers Policy, University of California-Berkeley Encouraging ‘Double Standard’ on Israel:

A new policy on campus events at the University of California-Berkeley encourages a “double standard” that works against pro-Israel groups, a student leader told The Algemeiner on Monday.

The charge comes as retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz prepares to speak on Israel at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. Dershowitz’s talk was originally slated to take place a day earlier, but faced cancellation as its co-sponsors — the Chabad Jewish Student Center and Tikvah: Students for Israel — ran afoul of an events policy instituted at Berkeley in August. The “viewpoint-neutral” measure requires that campus police be notified eight weeks in advance of events that are not sponsored by a department and expect to draw an audience of over 200 people.

While organizers sought to secure sponsorship from a number of departments in response, their efforts were rebuffed and the talk was in jeopardy, until Dershowitz received an invitation to speak from Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Adah Forer — co-president of Tikvah and an Emerson fellow with the pro-Israel education group StandWithUs — told The Algemeiner that multiple departments at UC-Berkeley either rejected or ignored requests to host Dershowitz, “including those that we know have sponsored anti-Israel speakers in the past.” Among these is the Ethnic Studies Department, which in 2015 sponsored a talk by Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.

The department “refused to host Dershowitz, claiming that student groups must have a relationship with the department in order to ask it to sponsor a speaker,” Forer said.

“However, these responses suggest that there is definitely an issue here,” she added. “A double standard is evident, as multiple departments refused to host Professor Dershowitz but have hosted anti-Israel speakers in the past, thus taking away from the academic integrity they supposedly stand for, especially when it comes to Israel.”

Forer called the university’s new policy requiring eight weeks advance notice of non-departmental events “a setback for student groups.”

She pointed out that school was not in session eight weeks ago, and said Tikvah “could not book rooms on campus for this time period until week four,” meaning that any event would have to take place on “week 12, the end of the semester.”

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SnyderTalk Comment:

UC Berkeley is an indoctrination center, not an institution of higher learning.  This is my advice to the people of California: clean it up or shut it down.

If the faculty and administrators at UC Berkeley can’t or won’t act responsibly, they should be replaced.  If replacing them doesn’t work, a temporary shutdown is a reasonable step.

UC Berkeley is one example of higher education gone awry in America.  There are many others.  Taxpayers should not be required to pay for the brainwashing of our future leaders.  That’s what’s happening at UC Berkeley.

Isn’t it interesting?  Whenever “liberal progressive” Democrats take control, misery and mayhem follow.  It happens in education; it happens in city and county government; and it happens in the federal government.

Switching Gears Slightly

President Trump should come down hard on government officials who insist on creating sanctuaries for illegal immigrants in the U.S.  We have laws for a reason, and California needs an attitude adjustment.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.