Disruption at UC Berkeley law deans home poses question about free speech [Video]

A video showing a contentious moment between a University of California, Berkeley student and a law professor and dean at their home has gone viral.

The encounter follows months of disputes between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.

The video has stirred accusations that the respected law school dean violated the student’s constitutional rights.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, Professor Catherine Fisk, who are Jewish, were hosting a celebratory dinner at their home for graduating law students.

The dinner was scheduled to happen on the last day of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims. The event marked the first of three nights that Chemerinsky and his wife were hosting students.

Malak Afaneh, a member of Law Students for Justice in Palestine, said her organization were initially boycotting the dinner and shared a poster reading, “No dinner with Zionist Chem while Gaza starves.”

“We thought that this dinner was kind of disgusting and extravagant and lavish, a display of wealth that was already being funneled using our tuition …