The Chancellor of Berkeley Weighs In | The New Yorker

The Chancellor of Berkeley Weighs In | The New Yorker

At Berkeley we would strongly condemn any advocacy for genocide against the Jewish people. And our response to that hate speech would not stop with condemnation. This campus can and will discipline hate speech not protected by the First Amendment. Any speech not protected by the First Amendment would, by definition, violate the Student and Faculty Codes of Conduct. And, even if that hate speech was protected, it would not stop Berkeley from strongly condemning it and marshalling the university’s educational resources to address the evil and the ignorance at the heart of any call for genocide against the Jewish people. Yet, I am certain that even this commitment—which is as far as we can go under the law—will sound far from sufficient to some, and an unwarranted over-reaction to others.

- Carol Crist, Chancellor, UC Berkeley