Irvine’s Most Hateful

HANNI HABBAS

In an appalling escalation of campus unrest, 47 people were hauled off in handcuffs at the University of California, Irvine after a pro-Palestine encampment turned into a violent takeover of a lecture hall on campus.

Hanni Habbas was one of those arrested.

UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman did not mince words, calling the takeover a “direct assault on the rights of other students.” 

Protesters’ demands “would require the university to violate the academic freedom rights of faculty, the free speech rights of faculty and fellow students, and the civil rights of many of our Jewish students.”

UC Irvine is sending a dangerous message: that the consequences of such violent, extremist behavior will be kept under wraps. These hateful individuals should not be allowed to slink away into anonymity; their peers, and future employers, deserve to know who they truly are.