UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event featuring 9/11 'mastermind' attorney

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Set us as preferred In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with speakers whom critics accuse of sympathizing with extremism or being antisemitic.The symposium, “25 Years After 9/11,” was sponsored by five law school centers and ran Thursday and Friday, highlighting legal issues raised by the U.S.response to the attacks.

Topics included torture, rendition, detention, immigration enforcement and government surveillance.The program said America’s response ushered in “sweeping expansions of state power.” In his Friday afternoon statement, Frenk said: “UCLA’s values are clear.

We reject antisemitism and terrorism in all their forms, and we believe our campus must be a place where the dignity of every member of our community is respected.Nothing about this event at the UCLA School of Law, which we do not endorse, changes or qualifies those commitments.”Melanie T.

Partow, an attorney who has represented Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay, was listed as a speaker on a Friday morning panel titled, “Torture, Rendition, and Detention: The Erosion of the Rights Regime Post-9/11.” The 9/11 Commission report described Mohammed as the “principal architect” of the attacks.The Washington Free Beacon first reported on the event.

California Twenty five years after the Sept.11 attacks, most students and some teachers have no living memory of the day.

From UCLA lecture halls to LAUSD schools, educators and families rethink how to teach 9/11 history to a new generation.Some members of the Jewish campus community also objected to the program’s description of Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the Oct....