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Once again the campus radicals at UC Berkeley are gearing up to roar when conservative students bring a voice of reason to Sproul Plaza, and the university is quietly bracing for trouble instead of defending the First Amendment. Berkeley’s history as the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement is being mocked by administrators who now treat political expression as a public-safety problem rather than a constitutional right. The predictable pattern is emerging: conservative groups announce a lawful event, leftist mobs plot disruption, and the school spends its time managing chaos instead of protecting speakers.
Turning Point USA and its campus affiliates have done more than any other conservative organization to bring common-sense ideas to a generation being indoctrinated by woke faculty, and that work naturally draws hate from the left’s protest industry. TPUSA has grown into a powerhouse on campuses across America precisely because it tells students the truth about free markets, national pride, and personal responsibility — and the left wants those students silenced. When college administrators allow protests and cancellations to go unchecked, they betray the very mission of higher education and hand a victory to intolerance.
Make no mistake: this isn’t about safety so much as political censorship. Universities that require conservative groups to pay for police presence or set restrictive permits are effectively erecting financial and bureaucratic roadblocks to shut them down. The double standard is obvious to anyone watching — conservative speakers face a gauntlet of obstacles while hostile protesters get a free pass to intimidate and shut down debate.
Meanwhile, in a separate but related showdown, New Yorkers are rightly alarmed about the implications of electing leaders who flirt with anti-Israel and, by extension, antisemitic rhetoric. Jewish organizations and civic leaders have publicly warned that Zohran Mamdani’s past comments and associations raise legitimate concerns about whether he will stand with Jewish New Yorkers when the pressure comes. The country should not shrug when a major American city puts someone in power whose rhetoric has alarmed the very communities he will be sworn to protect.
Those concerns are not invented by partisans; they rest on real statements and videos where Mamdani accused the NYPD’s conduct of being linked to the Israeli military and has at times declined to forcefully repudiate troubling slogans. When community leaders see that record and raise the alarm, conservatives and honest moderates alike should listen — the safety of synagogues, schools, and Jewish families in New York is not a political talking point, it’s a public-safety responsibility. Voters who cherish law and order must demand clarity and accountability, not vague platitudes.
This is the moment for patriots to stand up for two things at once: the right of conservative students to speak on campus without fear, and the right of Jewish Americans to live free from intimidation and demonization. If Berkeley officials won’t enforce the rules equally, parents and donors should hold their feet to the fire. And in New York, residents must make it clear that tolerance does not include tolerance for rhetoric that delegitimizes a community or excuses violent slogans.
A note about sources: I searched for contemporaneous reporting on the specific Fox News clip mentioned and solid coverage of a TPUSA event at UC Berkeley being officially “braced” for protests, but most authoritative reporting connects the larger pattern of Berkeley’s free-speech struggles and TPUSA’s campus activities rather than a single definitive Fox segment. The material cited above documents Berkeley’s long history as a protest flashpoint and the national concerns from Jewish groups about Mamdani, but I could not locate the exact Fox News Live video transcript referenced in the briefing.
