‘I really think this is bigger than an Israeli issue or a Jewish issue,’ he tells the Free Beacon
Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Israeli lawyer whose University of California, Berkeley, speech was shut down last month by an anti-Semitic mob, will return to the school next week to deliver a new talk.
Bar-Yoshafat will speak on Berkeley’s campus at a Monday event sponsored by Tikvah Students for Israel and other pro-Israel groups. His appearance comes just weeks after a talk he was scheduled to deliver at Berkeley was shut down by violent demonstrators, who choked a female student attendee, spit in another’s face, and shouted “Jew, Jew, Jew.”
The lawyer and Israel Defense Forces reservist told the Washington Free Beacon he plans to give an altered speech that will address the ordeal and subsequent attempts to shut down his speech.
“I really think this is bigger than an Israeli issue or a Jewish issue,” Bar-Yoshafat said. “This is Western civilization collapsing because people are not willing to even let me speak.”
“I’m not that important. I’m a low-ranking officer,” he continued. “If you’re not even willing to have a dialogue or discourse, that’s really the end of free speech, which is quite amazing, because the…
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