STEFAN SHARKANSKY was the victim of a hate crime in Berkeley while covering a speech there. But it appears the perpetrator, who is now in jail on felony charges, got the worst of it. Here’s Stefan’s conclusion:

The biggest lesson that came out of this episode for me was the nature of the demonstrators. It was clear from their puerile signs and vapid slogans, their hostile attitudes, the yelling, the disruption, the theft and destruction of my camera, the various multi-cultis who have no connection to the conflict, not even by ties of ethnicity. Few, if any of them know anything or really care about Palestinians. They simply require something to hate and to attack, and Israel just happens to be the fashionable target du jour. Which is why “Berlin Campus” (from decades past) was so interesting a slip.

One piece of good news: “I was impressed with the cool professionalism of both the Berkeley city police as well as the campus police.” Read the whole thing.