Non-event

A little over a week ago, February 27, at UCLA, the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies had scheduled an in-person event with a former Israeli official. When a protest demonstration was announced, the event was moved to another campus location.* However, that location became known and, after the violence at a similar event at Berkeley on February 26, it was decided to change the event from in-person to a Zoom webinar.

The webinar is now available on the Center's YouTube channel.** 

Instagram post***

As a result of the preemptive switch to a webinar, you didn't hear about any Berkeley-type problems at UCLA on February 27th. On the other hand, an event that was supposed to be on campus was removed out of fear of possible violence and put online. An alternative option is always to provide sufficient security to avoid things getting out of hand.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-not-ok-part-2.html.

**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyFFAiowGa4.

***https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ygNJSvTHe/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading&img_index=2