There is some misleading reporting in this story. It seems a few groups amended their bylaws to say that no speakers who support Israel will be invited by the groups to speak at their functions.
Multiple student groups at the UC Berkeley School of Law passed a bylaw on August 21 stating that they would never invite any speakers that support “Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”
So there is no Jew free zoning going on.
However the measures are still pretty stupid because it is taking a stand against any speaker who supports Israel and by association any member who also supports Israel.. The bullshit rationale was to protect Palestinian students but that is a crock of horseshit. There was no threat to Palestinian law students (how many could there be) if a speak is pro Isreael for any reason.
This is a really bad precdent for the law school to allow. If the Palestinian Law Student Association wants to make a policy it is free to do so no matter how close minded.... but to make a movement to get other unrelated student groups to adopt the same political stance is exactly what a law school should stand against.
This is what happens when a school is so afraid to say anything to its students.
Look at the other groups tha agreed to the by law change, wtf do they have to do with Israel and Palestine... what if a pro Israel speaker comes to talk about woman's rights or a topic regarding Asians.
Berkeley Law Muslim Student Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Womxn of Color Collective, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Queer Caucus, Community Defense Project, Women of Berkeley Law, and Law Students of African Descent.
We are becoming a country of fucktards
