CORRECTION: Slide 5 reads “Monday, May 18,” but should read “Sunday, May 18.” Also, Nancy Gilson is misleadingly named as a recipient of the GPS students’ letter on Slide 3, and some details regarding the letter and Freund’s receipt of it have been clarified. Please see our full article online for the most accurate version of this piece.
On Tuesday, May 20, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and Academic Senate Chair Olivia Graeve sent out a campus-wide email addressing two protests against the School of Global Policy and Strategy’s public lecture with the former Israeli ambassador for the Consul General of Israel in New York and the Tri-State Area, Ido Aharoni. The protests, held at 4:30 p.m. on May 19, were organized by Students for Justice in Palestine San Diego and the Faculty Defense Group.
“Last night, a group of protesters, many of them wearing masks, disrupted a public lecture by an invited speaker on our campus,” the message read. “This conduct is an affront to the miss...