Jewish UC Berkeley couple confronts Pro-Palestinian student at private dinner

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A video showing a contentious moment between a University of California, Berkeley student and a law professor and dean at their home has gone viral.

The encounter follows months of disputes between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.The video has stirred accusations that the respected law school dean violated the student's constitutional rights.Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, Professor Catherine Fisk, who are Jewish, were hosting a celebratory dinner at their home for graduating law students.The dinner was scheduled to happen on the last day of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims.

When she continued, there was an attempt to take away her microphone. Repeatedly, we said to her that you are a guest in our home, please stop and leave," the dean said.The video shows Fisk snatching the mic from Afaneh's hand."She kept on grabbing inappropriately at my breasts, and kept grabbing in my shirt area, trying to tug and pull," the woman recounted. Afaneh considers the action an assault and a violation of her First Amendment rights.

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