Students Physically Attacked for Interrupting Israel Talk in New Mexico

America First!

all the while Metallica plays " master of the puppets"

This is why we have police and/or campus police. They needed to be called to handle this disruption. There was no need to interrupt the talk nor was violence needed by the attendees. A university is supposed to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and information.

tables have turned...pro palestinians have on multiple occasions shouted down invited university speakers that have anything to do with Israel, ( at UCI for example) and have also assaulted speakers. while I can't condone the actions of either party in this particular story, it is beyond clear to me that this is a direct response to the multiple shout-downs disruptive arab students are becoming known for.

Nonie Darwish is followed by protests where ever she speaks. She is very outspoken about (and against) the Muslim faith she grew up in Egypt.

The people have a right to hear the speaker. Protesters should not disrupt. They should be allowed to protest outside the event. Each side has a right to their opinion. What I don't like most the lack of tolerance. No university security for the event seems to be the problem.

this used to be a place of opposing opinions being allowed. there should not be allowed any physical disruptions. throw out the disruptors.

Doing something like shouting down an invited guest does not help your cause.

Try to take away my freedom of speach and I'll fight you too.

I encourage them to all travel to a Middle Eastern country and find a conference calling for the destruction of Israel and start screaming "stop the violence." They won't just get assaulted, they'll be killed by the people the are supposedly standing up for .... seriously, go try it. You won't? Didn't think so... you just like feeling 'edgy' and 'protesty' instead of doing something real and risking yourself.

There is simply no common sense or decency in this episode. If you want to protest, sit outside, then hold a counter-event immediately following. Walking in and screaming a speaker down invites a booty-whipping, in my opinion.

This incident is a direct result of the schools that have let these psychotic, belligerent jerks terrorize anyone with a different opinion. If these students knew they'd be expelled for interrupting invited lecturers on campus, this would have never happened. Hold your protest outside, march, hold your breath, stamp your feet, whatever. But shouting down invited speakers should not have been allowed.

By all means exercise your right to free speech--but if you can't back it up, so be it. Rights are never "given", they are always fought for.

"attacking" eh? Hm, where s that judge from Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania when you need him?

Pennsylvania islamic judge Mark Martin dismissed an assault case against a fellow muslim and chided the assaulted man for insulting islam by wearing a Halloween costume of Zombie Mohammed. No doubt he and his ilk would throw the Jewish speakers in jail for provoking the muslims who disrupted the event.

it's time people stand up for what they believe and not get pushed around by crazies.

I'm no particular Israel or Jew sympathizer but why anybody need to go to spoil somebody else's party just because you disagree? Why they just go organize their own show and say what they have to say using their (only in America) 1st Ammendment right?. But no, they must go and "occupy" everybody else's space and try to shut up the other guys. Totalitarian roots at work. Just wait until they take power.

An obvious over-reaction and a clear case of violation of freedom of speech!

Right or wrong both parties are at fault here, but the fighting was unnesscesary event.You don't settle issues by fighting.

hmmm they pulled the terrorist card on American soil at a time like this and didn't think they where going to catch a beat down. MORONS