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Free speech must apply to everyone at UC —not just the radical left

Nypost · · 501 words · By CA Post Editorial Board
Academic Freedom Campus Polarization Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“University of California Regent Jay Sures asked... Does it apply to everyone equally? Or just the far left?”
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The provided evidence for Jay Sures consists of a Wikipedia entry for a talent agent and general UC Regents info, but no evidence confirms the specific quote or question asked by a Regent named Jay Sures regarding the 'far left'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Regents of the University of California (also referred to as the Board of Regents to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same name) is the governing board of the Universit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jay Sures (born November 2, 1966) is an American entertainment industry executive and talent agent, and vice chairman of United Talent Agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sures
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Jay Moores (born July 9, 1944, in San Antonio, Texas, as John Jay Broderick) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, and the former owner of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moores_(baseball)
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“Sures was reacting to the shocking appearance — via remote link — of would-be Palestinian terrorist Israa Jaabis”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Israa Jaabis appeared via video/remote link to address students at UC Berkeley Law.
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web search NEUTRAL — Video shows Berkeley Law students applauding Israa Jaabis, convicted in a 2015 attempted car bombing; the appearance has sparked criticism and federal scrutiny.
https://hoodline.com/2026/04/berkeley-law-crowd-cheers-convi…
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web search NEUTRAL — UC Berkeley allowed a convicted Palestinian car bomber, released in the October 7, 2023, Hamas hostage deal, to address students via video from a Berkeley Law School classroom on Monday. The event, or…
https://californiaglobe.com/fl/uc-berkeley-law-hosts-convict…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israa Jaabis, who was released from an Israeli jail in 2023 as part of a prisoner exchange related to the October 7 attacks, spoke to UC Berkeley students via video Monday.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/palestinian-car-bomber…
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“Israa Jaabis... tried to ignite a gas tank to kill Israelis. She ended up burning herself and a police officer.”
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Wikipedia and other web sources confirm Jaabis was involved in a car bombing in 2015 that injured herself and a police officer, though there is a dispute over whether it was an intentional attack or an accident.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jaabis seriously injured herself and Israeli police officer Moshe Chen when she allegedly detonated a car bomb in 2015, according to Israeli authorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israa_Jaabis
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web search NEUTRAL — Israa Jaabis spoke to UC Berkeley students via video Monday. Palestinian woman Israa al-Jaabis, wearing an orange sweatshirt and black head covering, with an Israeli policewoman at her sentencing hear…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/palestinian-car-bomber…
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web search NEUTRAL — She was hurt when her car, which contained a gas tank, exploded. Israelies claim that it was a failed a failed suicide bombing, while she claims it was from a fault in her car. She never claimed that …
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56399/was-israa…
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“freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov, who endured over 500 days in captivity at the hands of Palestinian terrorists”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Omer Shem Tov was an Israeli hostage abducted from the Nova music festival and held in Gaza for 505 days.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberate s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli war crimes are violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which Israeli security forces have committed or been accused o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Omer Shem Tov is a former Israeli hostage who was abducted by Hamas from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, and held captive in Gaza for 505 days. His ordeal, including reports of abuse and h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Shem_Tov
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“UCLA’s student government would protest Shem Tov’s address to a group of Jewish students on campus.”
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Multiple sources confirm that UCLA's student government (USAC) issued a protest or decried the presence of Omer Shem Tov on campus.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the October 7 attacks and the outbreak of the Gaza war, the United States has provided extensive military, diplomatic, and financial support to Israel. This included rapid deployment of wars…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Isra…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the Gaza war and genocide, protests on university campuses in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests_at_universit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Moshe Idel (Hebrew: משה אידל; born January 19, 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew Unive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Idel
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“Berkeley is the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s.”
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Wikipedia and the First Amendment Encyclopedia confirm the Free Speech Movement originated at UC Berkeley in the 1960s.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alliance of Libertarian Activists (ALA) was a libertarian student organization primarily located in the San Francisco Bay area, mostly active at University of California, Berkeley, established in 1965…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Libertarian_Activi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Other student lead…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jack Weinberg (born April 4, 1940) is an American environmental activist and former New Left activist who is best known for his role in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg
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“Students demanded the right to campaign for outside political causes on campus — including civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War.”
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Web search results confirm that students in the Free Speech Movement demanded the right to campaign for civil rights and oppose the Vietnam War on campus.
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web search NEUTRAL — Civil rights movement. Free Speech Movement. Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War.Opposition to the war arose during a time of unprecedented student activism, which included the free speech…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_United_States_in…
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web search NEUTRAL — Students demanded the right to campaign for outside political causes on campus — including civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/02/opinion/at-uc-allow-free-speec…
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web search NEUTRAL — From the fight for civil rights, to the fight against the Vietnam War, late-1960s America exploded with protest. And students were often the spark plug.National Guardsmen confront students at Sproul H…
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/right-on-is-a-powerful-little-p…
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“Conservative speakers have been heckled, threatened, and literally chased away at UC Berkeley in recent years.”
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While one source mentions protests and arrests during Ben Shapiro's appearance, the specific claim that speakers were 'literally chased away' is not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — The report points out that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro spoke at Berkeley in 2016 without controversy. But his appearance there last year was met by protests — leading to nine arrests — and th…
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/berkeley-free-spee…
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web search NEUTRAL — UC Berkeley researchers work every day to make discoveries that change the world. Whether advancing cures for Alzheimer’s, trailblazing the future of AI, or mapping the edges of the universe, our brea…
https://www.berkeley.edu/
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web search NEUTRAL — UC Berkeley professors and researchers are challenged to explain the "101" of their field of study in only 101 seconds.Congratulations to UC Berkeley's Newest Golden Bears! UC Berkeley Admissions and …
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZAXKyvvIV4uU4YvP5dmrmA
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“law students... disrupted a speech last month by Department of Homeland Security general counsel James Percival.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding James Percival's speech being disrupted by UCLA law students.
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“If any of those students become attorneys in California, they will have to take an oath... to “support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California,” and to conduct themselves “with dignity, courtesy, and integrity.””
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No evidence was provided to verify the specific wording of the California bar oath mentioned in the claim.
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