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opinion

UC Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones

I

f it wasn’t so frightening, 
one might be able to 
recognize the irony in the 
sight of campus progressives 
trying so hard to virtue signal 
that they fall victim to a deep 
moral shame.
Nine different 
law student 
groups at the 
University 
of California 
Berkeley’s 
School of Law, 
my own alma 
mater, have begun the new 
academic year by amending 
bylaws to ensure that they 
will never invite any speakers 
that support Israel or 
Zionism.
These are not groups 
that represent only a small 
percentage of the student 

population. They include 
Women of Berkeley Law, 
Asian Pacific American Law 
Students Association, Middle 
Eastern and North African 
Law Students Association, 
Law Students of African 
Descent and the Queer 
Caucus.
Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin 
Chemerinsky, a progressive 
Zionist, has observed that 
he himself would be banned 
under this standard, as would 
90% of his Jewish students.
It is now a century since 
Jewish-free zones first spread 
to the San Francisco Bay 
Area (“No Dogs. No Jews.”). 
Nevertheless, this move is 
frightening and unexpected, 
like a bang on the door in the 
night.
Berkeley law students 

are not the first to exclude 
Zionists. At the State 
University of New York at 
New Paltz, activists drove 
two sexual assault victims out 
of a survivor group for being 
Zionists. At the University 
of Southern California, 
they drove Jewish student 
government vice president 
Rose Ritch out of office, 
threatening to “impeach 
[her] Zionist ass.” At Tufts 
University, they tried to oust 
student judiciary committee 
member Max Price from the 
student government judiciary 
committee because of his 
support for Israel.
These exclusions reflect 
the changing face of campus 
antisemitism. The highest 
profile incidents are no 
longer just about toxic 

speech, which poisons the 
campus environment. Now 
anti-Zionist groups target 
Jewish Americans directly.
Anti-Zionism is flatly 
antisemitic. Using “Zionist” 
as a euphemism for “Jew” 
is nothing more than a 
confidence trick. Like other 
forms of Judeophobia, it is 
an ideology of hate, treating 
Israel as the “collective Jew” 
and smearing the Jewish state 
with defamations similar to 
those used for centuries to 
vilify individual Jews.
This ideology establishes 
a conspiratorial worldview, 
sometimes including 
replacement theory, which 
has occasionally erupted 
in violence, including 
mass-shootings. Moreover, 
Zionism is an integral aspect 

Kenneth L. 
Marcus

