The savages are in power, and they brook no dissent.
“Jewish environmentalist on Oakland City Council disinvited from speaking to UC Berkeley class,” by Gabe Stutman, Jewish News of Northern California, December 14, 2023:
A progressive environmental advocate and longtime Oakland City Council member was disinvited from addressing a UC Berkeley environmental policy class after students discovered what they considered to be pro-Israel social media posts, questioned the “legitimacy” of his views on environmental activism and accused him of supporting “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing.”
Dan Kalb, 64, has spent decades working on environmental policy in the nonprofit sector, advocating for clean energy, combating climate change and working on other conservation priorities.
He was invited to address an undergraduate course called Environmental Problem Solving, something he’d done a few times in previous semesters. He planned to share his experience advocating for climate policy at the local and state level, both as a nonprofit professional with groups like the Sierra Club and as a lawmaker.
But in the weeks leading up to Kalb’s Nov. 21 presentation, a group of students looked into his background and found social media posts that they said promoted “pro-Israeli propaganda.” Days prior to the event, Kurt Spreyer, the course instructor and an adjunct professor, contacted Kalb and shared a strongly worded letter that had been composed and co-signed by more than 30 students.
The letter, which was seen by J., alleged a litany of crimes committed by Israel, including environmental harms that the students said “forever chang[ed] the ecology of a once flourishing community and landscape.” The letter accused Kalb of playing an “active role in retweeting and spreading pro-Israeli propaganda, which often equates pro-Palestinian voices as ‘anti-Semitic.’”
Kalb is a familiar face at Oakland Jewish community events and has served on the city council since 2013. He considers himself a liberal supporter of Israel and a “passionate supporter of Israel’s right to exist,” he said. He was baffled when he read the letter; he called it “crazy.”
Kalb said in past visits to the class, the subject of Israel had never come up. The course provides “hands-on learning” for students “and exposure to environmental professionals in the field,” according to an online course description….
A review of Kalb’s X account shows recent posts dealing mainly with municipal issues like fire safety, combating gun violence and supporting the local food bank. Since Oct. 7, he has reposted or replied to a handful of messages related to the Israel-Hamas war “mostly to counter all the negative anti-Israel crap that goes on on social media,” he said.
Kalb responded to an Oct. 11 post about Hamas’ attack, stating: “I’ve been condemning the murderous Hamas terrorists repeatedly. I was in Israel back in March of this year including at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. My heart is broken. There is no ‘but’ here. Hamas must be unequivocally condemned and, if possible, dismantled so this never happens again.”…
Phil Copson says
The link between climate activism and anti-Semitism is that both are about demanding the power of life and death over others.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So how did Gaza, as well as the West Bank, do in the globalist ESG index?
Westman says
Ahh, UC Berkeley, where students are transmogrified into “ultra-liberal neo-capitalists” who are then able to move out of the parent’s basement into the rarefied environment of CA, stepping carefully over the ground-level “adornments” and drugged bodies of CA’s major cities. Maybe the ground-level environment should be cleaned up before moving to the sky-level.
A hilarious look at CA: https://babylonbee.com/news/clarence-the-angel-takes-gavin-newsom-to-florida-to-show-him-what-california-could-look-like-if-hed-never-been-born
James Lincoln says
If you want your child to become an anti-Semitic / Marxist / islam apologist, send them to UC Berkeley.