Bari Weiss Appearance at UCLA Is Canceled Over Security Concerns

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was supposed to speak this month on the future of journalism at the University of California at Los Angeles. Not anymore.

UCLA said Thursday the Feb. 27 event has been canceled, citing security concerns raised by Weiss. The speech was part of the university’s Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture series, honoring the Jewish American journalist murdered by Islamic jihadist groups in 2002.

“We always follow our security team’s guidance,” CBS said in an email. “This situation is no different. We are working with the university to reschedule for a different date.”

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