Protests greet Ehud Olmert in Chicago

About 150 protesters representing a coalition of Palestinian and Muslim groups protested Oct. 15 at the University of Chicago as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took the stage, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Some 400 people attended the speech, which was part of the King Abdullah II Annual Leadership Lecture series at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. The speech was interrupted several times by protesters, and some 25 students were ejected from the hall during the speech.

Olmert, who was scheduled to speak at a World Affairs Council event at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Oct. 22, also gave a speech at the University of Kentucky last week that drew dozens of protesters. — jta