College Officials Must Condemn On-Campus Support for Hamas Violence - Commentary

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law at the University of California, writes: 

Although college campuses are much quieter this fall than they were last spring, some of the anti-Israel rhetoric at some schools is frightening in its celebration of Hamas’s violence. What feels different is the repeated glorification of the Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people last year on Oct. 7 in a surprise attack. About 1,000 people attended a rally on Oct. 8 commemorating the first anniversary of the Hamas attack at the University of California, Berkeley, where I am the dean of the law school. About half appeared to be students. Many of the protest signs were explicit in their endorsement of the violence on that day a year ago: “Israel deserves 10,000 October 7ths,” one said. “Long Live Al-Aqsa Flood,” another said, using the Hamas name for the Oct. 7 attack.