UCLA disgraces itself by hosting terrorist lawyer – Latest News
UCLA disgraced itself this week by hosting a symposium on terrorism on the twenty fifth anniversary of 9/11 that featured radical critics of US counterterror coverage, and a lawyer for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
In addition to allegedly planning the 9/11 assaults on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Mohammed is the terrorist who decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.
Pearl’s father, Judea Pearl, teaches engineering at UCLA. That solely underlines how surprising and insensitive the symposium, hosted by UCLA School of Law, was.
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A second aircraft hits the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Tamara Beckwith/NY Post
It was so surprising that UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk condemned the occasion in unique remarks to The California Post, saying “We reject antisemitism and terrorism in all their forms, and we believe our campus must be a place where the dignity of every member of our community is respected.”
If UCLA hosted any 9/11 occasion in any respect, it ought to have been to honor victims of terror.
UCLA is already on the new seat for permitting antisemitism to run wild on campus, particularly during the so-called “encampment” in 2024.
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The administration allowed anti-Israel and pro-Hamas college students to occupy a public space on campus and to construct barricades.
The radicals stopped Jewish college students from going to lessons and even to their dormitories except they disavowed their “Zionism” and denounced Israel.
The activists additionally assaulted journalists who tried to movie the encampment, and excluded members of the public and the college who merely needed to stroll by way of the middle of campus at a publicly funded establishment.
A big group of college students walks on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images
You would suppose, with federal lawsuits and civil rights complaints looming, that UCLA wouldn’t exit of its technique to insult the nation on 9/11.
But that offers an excessive amount of credit to academia, which has misplaced the plot.
Many of America’s universities have turned in opposition to the nation that nurtured them, and the public that also funds them.
Extremists with tenure, who’re nearly unattainable to fire, exploit their energy to indoctrinate college students and disseminate anti-American propaganda.
While universities take pleasure in beneficiant exemptions from the taxes that the remaining of us should pay, their college assault capitalism and demand financial redistribution.
They declare that they permit radicalism within the title of “academic freedom.” But tutorial freedom evidently solely applies to the left, as a result of conservative professors are scarce and conservative audio system should be surrounded with security or are merely disinvited.
Passersby stroll previous Royce Hall on the University of California campus on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA. The campus was the positioning of a UCLA layoffs protest. Los Angeles Times through Getty Images
You can have no matter debate you need about American overseas coverage, and the ways of the conflict on terror. You would possibly even discover that Americans are prepared to hearken to criticism.
But don’t host an occasion with a terrorist’s lawyer on the anniversary of 9/11. You’re simply reinforcing the well-deserved contempt with which bizarre Americans regard our faculties and universities.
