Pro-Palestinian Protest at Jewish Berkeley Law Dean’s Dinner Roils Campus
A confrontation between a UC Berkeley law professor and a student protester got physical on Tuesday, becoming the latest campus flare-up over Gaza.
At a dinner for third-year law students that coincided with the last day of Ramadan, Malak Afaneh, co-president of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP), rose to protest the school’s investment in arms manufacturers for Israel and the ongoing violence in Gaza.
A video of the incident quickly circulated around social media, with pro-Palestinian groups accusing law professor Catherine Fisk of “violently assaulting” Afaneh by trying to snatch her cellphone out of her hand, pulling at her clothes, and putting her arm around her as she told her to leave.