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Berkeley Student Group Shares Blood Libel Cartoon Targeting Law School Dean

Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine depicts Jewish dean with bloody utensils

(Berkeley Law for Palestine Instagram)

A student group at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law published an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting the school’s dean, who is Jewish, holding bloody utensils over a dinner table, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.

Berkeley’s chapter of Law Students for Justice in Palestine posted a cartoon depicting law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky holding a fork and knife dripping with blood over a dinner table, with the caption “No Dinner With Zionist Chem While Gaza Starves!” The graphic, which was posted on Monday, was deleted approximately half an hour later, but the Washington Free Beacon obtained a…

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