Who Is the Woman in the Green Cap?

As previously reported, on May 10, a pro-Israel event at UC Irvine was disrupted by Students for Justice in Palestine and other students. I was present and videotaped the disruption.

In the above photo, you see a young woman in a green baseball cap. The cap reads, “Legal Observer-National Lawyers Guild”. If I am not mistaken (I don’t recall actually seeing her enter the room, but I don’t believe she was present prior to the arrival of the protesters), I believe she accompanied the protesters. The videotape shows that she did not take part in the disruption, but videotaped with her cell phone.)

The next day, I spoke to this woman in front of the apartheid wall. She was still wearing the cap.She told me she was a law student, but she refused to tell me who had enlisted the NLG to observe the week of protests (“attorney-client privilege”). A few minutes later, I saw her hugging one of the pro-Palestinian crowd.

In May 2016, NLG “legal observers attached to the UCI Law School” accompanied pro-Palestinian protesters to the site of a pro-Israel film showing where a disruption took place that necessitated the calling of campus police. The legal observers reportedly demanded that the SJP protesters be admitted to the room where the film was being shown.

One thing I am comfortable saying is that the NLG is an ally of the pro-Palestinian forces at UCI. Their LA chapter leader, James Lafferty, has spoken at anti-Israel events before at UCI on behalf of the Muslim Student Union. It is also pretty clear to me that the NLG was enlisted by the anti-Israel protesters during the last anti-Israel week of events by the pro-Palestinian groups. The affiliation between NLG and the UCI Law School is also quite troubling.

On a good note, Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is leaving UCI to take the same job at UC Berkeley. That’s the perfect place for him.