A pro-Israel group put up a controversial billboard on Friday morning outside UC Berkeley's law school graduation.
A pro-Israel group put up a controversial billboard on Friday morning outside UC Berkeley's law school graduation.The billboard, commissioned by Accuracy in Media, publicly identified eight UC Berkeley law students who President Adam Guillette said signed a proclamation banning any speakers that support the state of Israel. The mobile billboard was parked outside the Greek Theater and was visible to anyone walking by it.
"Guillette said the group plans to move the billboard to Southern California to USC next with a similar display."For the students who've apologized and quit their antisemitic organizations, we take them off our billboards and take down their names, immediately," he said. Ethan Reilly, a Jewish law student who wore a Palestinian keffiyeh, said that he feels that outing the students by name is "aggressive and harassing.
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