What do a UC Berkeley Near Eastern studies (NES) lecturer, the co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and a member of a Berkeley city commission have in common? All three are promoting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. In the latest
Campus Watch research, CW West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell reports on a recent lecture by PACBI leader Omar Barghouti, with an introduction from UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian in which he expressed his support for Cheryl Davila, a member of a Berkeley, California
city commission who was dismissed after introducing a BDS resolution. Stillwell’s article appears today at
Frontpage Magazine:
Bazian provided the introduction to a September 18 lecture co-sponsored by NES and delivered by Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). An audience of approximately two hundred, comprised mostly of students and including local anti-Israel activists, twenty or so women in hijabs, and a tall man with a “Palestine” sash around his neck who, during the Q&A, claimed to work for the virulently anti-Israel online magazine Electronic Intifada, filled a large lecture hall in UC Berkeley’s Dwinelle Hall.
Before introducing Barghouti, Bazian rallied the audience to the “cause” of Cheryl Davila, the former Human Welfare & Community Action Commission (HWCAC) member.
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