This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabarty.

Erwin Chemerinsky is one of America's most highly regarded legal scholars.

He's the dean of the University of California Berkeley Law School,

a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,

a former president of the Association of American Law Schools.

He's argued a number of times before the United States Supreme Court.

His legal analysis has led him to support affirmative action, abortion rights, and gun control,

putting him squarely toward the progressive end of the legal spectrum.

However, in a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Chemurinsky says nothing has prepared

him for the anti-Semitism he sees on college campuses now.

And he joins us today from Berkeley, California.

Erwin Chemerinsky, welcome to On Point.

Thank you for having me on. Professor, can you first tell us since October 7th, what

have you seen or experienced directly on the Berkeley campus that has led you to feel such shock.

It began immediately after the attacks on October 7th, when messengers were put out by

our law students in Justice Palestine,

by a campus group celebrating what Hamas had done.

I sent a message to the community on October 9th that began by saying I was horrified by the terrorist attacks in Israel

and expressing compassion for all of our loved ones who were in danger or all had lost

their lives. Immediately, our lost in Palestine,

post that on Instagram, denouncing what I had said

as racist and Islamophobic,

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