Universities today often host radicals who glorify death, hatred, and anti-Americanism — while effectively blocking contrary views.

Case in point? UC Berkeley, where a student group is set to host, on-campus by remote feed, pro-terror lunatic Mohamed Abdou — on Oct. 6.

Abdou’s appearance, plus a second talk the next day at Claremont Colleges, invokes the anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023 — when Hamas stormed Israel, raped dozens of women, killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

To suggest that Hamas has the moral high ground after such barbarity is ludicrous. Yet Berkeley and other universities treat the likes of Abdou — self-described as “with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad” — as honored guests.

Meanwhile, anyone speaking on campus against Hamas and Oct. 7 can expect to be heckled, harassed or worse.

The double standard is especially galling at UC Berkeley — the birthplace of the free speech movement, where students in the 1960s fought campus restrictions on political speech and won.

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Abdou, who told NYU students in April to “Be proud of your hate for America,” is embraced.

But contrary and conservative voices have long been accorded the heckler’s veto: shouted down, intimidated or urged via violence to keep quiet or stay away.

In 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos, David Horowitz and Ann Coulter all canceled planned speeches to conservatives at Berkeley, amid security threats.

That same year, Ben Shapiro did speak at Zellerbach Hall. Yet his talk required sweeping security measures, including armed police, a concrete barrier and secure perimeter, and the closure of nearby buildings.

Even former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — hardly a firebrand on the right — was repeatedly heckled by protesters when she spoke on campus in 2024 alongside Berkeley’s then-chancellor, Carol Christ.

The pattern is clear: Agitators at Cal insist on shutting down opposing views, rather than engaging with them. 

Civility, along with reasoned debate and discussion, has all but left the building(s).

One might think that American students would relate to the more than 360 young people slaughtered at a music festival in Israel on Oct. 7.

Instead, many cheer for the side that did the slaughtering.

Which brings us back to jihadist Mohamed Abdou, an ex-Columbia professor whose views were too extreme even for that hotbed of leftism.

After he told NYU students take pride in hating America, Abdou blathered: “You love Islam, and you should be loving Islam more than this barbarous colony. It’s a plague upon the Earth. And yes, in that sense, you need to be a threat. We all need to be a threat.”

This is the kind of chilling talk that passes for educational enrichment at the likes of NYU, Claremont Colleges and Cal?

It’s bananas, it’s dangerous — and at Berkeley, it’s often the only side that feels safe speaking out.