After an Israeli speaker was invited to UC Berkeley, hundreds of anti-Israel student protestors gathered outside to try to prevent the event from occurring. Lauder Fellow Danielle Sobkin, co-president of a campus Jewish group that invited the speaker, spoke to Fox News, saying,
"I was on the phone with another event organizer who told me and showed me what was going on and what I heard was almost unbelievable. This feeling of hopelessness that I was feeling from blocks away is indescribable."