Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz told LawNewz.com yesterday that he has sent a letter threatening potential legal action to the provost at UC Berkeley over the university’s “discriminatory” policy for on-campus speakers. He believes the rules unfairly discriminate against conservatives or even those not on the “way hard left.”
Law Newz goes on to report
Dershowitz said that the university originally prevented him from speaking on Israel because he did not give the school eight-week notice as a “high-profile” speaker. He says the school waives the requirement for high-profile individuals invited to speak by the University’s departments (as opposed to student groups). Here’s the problem: According to Dershowitz, the departments at Berkeley are notoriously very liberal, and don’t regularly invite a diversity of political views to speak.
“If a pro-jihadi terrorist wants to speak, the Near Eastern Studies Department invites them and they can,” Dershowitz said. “But if a peace loving two-state solution advocate like myself with a 50-year academic history wants to speak, I have to eight weeks.”
Dershowitz believes this could amount to “content-based” discrimination.
“Departments shouldn’t have politics. They should be academics. These departments are highly political,” Dershowitz said.
He’s got more to complain about at https://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dershowitz-sends-legal-threat-over-uc-berkeleys-discriminatory-policy-favoring-hard-left/
