Source: insidehighered. Posted By: Aidan P...4839 days ago
After a rare prosecution related to a campus protest, 10 Muslim students who are Palestine supporters were found guilty of misdemeanors Friday for heckling the Israeli ambassador to the United States when he spoke at the University of California at Irvine.
But the verdict, which ended a two-week trial in Orange County, is unlikely to put to rest a controversy that raged for more than a year and a half, from the incident itself in February 2010 through the university’s response and now the trial....