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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

University of California Berkeley

Ron Hassner at his sleep-in protest (via Shalom Hartman Institute)
March 23, 2024, 3:19 am
Ending sit-in, Israel studies prof cites UC Berkeley’s improved antisemitism response
Ron Hassner says school made sufficient commitments to ensure safety of Jewish students after series of incidents on campus, including pro-Palestinian protest that turned violent
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Students protesting Israel's war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate on October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)
March 6, 2024, 1:53 pm
UC Berkeley under federal investigation after protesters disrupt Israeli speaker
School officials say they will cooperate with investigation after denouncing protesters’ ‘overtly antisemitic expression’
By Andrew Lapin
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators break through the doors of a building hosting a Jewish event featuring a speaker from Israel, at the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, February 26, 2024. (Screenshots from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
February 29, 2024, 4:40 am
Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Berkeley force police evacuation of Jewish event
University says criminal investigation probing suspected battery and use of antisemitic slurs, among other allegations, after demonstrators break through doors and breach venue
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
September 2, 2023, 4:14 am
Berkeley AEPi shellfish dump wasn’t antisemitic vandalism, police and fraternity say
Investigation finds multiple sites hit with the non-kosher food, which the Jewish house had interpreted as an anti-Jewish act
By Emma Goss
Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
August 30, 2023, 7:54 am
Shellfish thrown at UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat house on first Shabbat of semester
Alpha Epsilon Pi denounces incident as antisemitic act, says it found the seafood scattered at property, including in member’s room; police won’t confirm if probing as hate crime
By Emma Goss
Women carrying baskets of excavated earth to the dump pile at Tell en-Naṣbeh in 1935 while others pick pottery sherds out of the dirt mound. (Courtesy of the Badè Museum/Pacific School of Religion)
August 8, 2023, 4:19 am
Exhibit uncovers forgotten laborers behind British Mandate’s archaeological exploits
Part of a reckoning over the history of archaeology, the Badè Museum launches an exploration into the diggers, haulers, and local staff who worked a dig near Ramallah in the 1920s
By Melanie Lidman
A JewBelong billboard in Oakland, California, papered over by a Jewish anti-Zionist group, February 1, 2023. (Anonymous)
February 3, 2023, 2:13 pm
SF Bay Area Jews battle on billboards over branding of anti-Zionism
Signs declaring ‘anti-Zionism is antisemitism’ plastered with ‘Free Palestine’ in pair of incidents, with group representing anti-Zionist Jews claiming responsibility for one
By Andrew Lapin
A mobile billboard hired by Accuracy in Media accusing Berkeley student leaders of antisemitism, in Texas. (Courtesy/Accuracy in Media)
January 19, 2023, 1:34 am
US group dispatches mobile ‘antisemite’ billboards to homes of anti-Israel students
Provocative political outfit Accuracy in Media targets neighborhoods of Berkeley Law School organizers whose groups banned Zionist speakers, sparking uproar
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: The University of California campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,File)
December 15, 2022, 10:36 pm
US government opens antisemitism probe after ‘Jew-free zones’ alleged at UC Berkeley
Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights says it will investigate claims by pro-Israel advocates that the school failed to address antisemitism among students
By Andrew Lapin
A truck emblazoned with an image of Adolf Hitler and the phrase 'All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand,' drove through Berkeley, California, October 2022, in response to a controversy involving several UC Berkeley Law student groups resolving to bar 'Zionist' speakers. (Courtesy of Accuracy in Media)
October 20, 2022, 3:46 am
Hitler truck ad, meant to bash alleged Berkeley ‘Jew-free zones,’ draws fire instead
Provocative effort by Accuracy in Media, aimed at law school groups that banned Zionist speakers, slammed for trivializing memory of Holocaust victims, as debate continues to rage
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
October 5, 2022, 7:02 pm
Does UC Berkeley really have ‘Jew-free zones’?
9 student groups at the university’s law school have banned pro-Israel speakers. How to make sense of the escalating furor
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: The University of California campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,File)
October 4, 2022, 6:59 pm
Leading US Jewish groups blast Berkeley Law school amid anti-Zionism uproar
Furor erupts after 9 student groups ban pro-Israel speakers in latest antisemitism controversy to roil US campuses; Jewish leaders at college decry ‘panic-mongering’
By Luke Tress
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, talks with filmmaker David Grubin about his PBS series, 'The Jewish Americans,' on January 10, 2008 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
May 14, 2021, 4:32 pm
In posthumously published book, Ruth Bader Ginsburg puts own stamp on her legacy
A personally chosen collection of favorite legal briefs, US Supreme Court opinions and dissents, and recent speeches aim to show how Jewish jurist fought for a more perfect union
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ana Light (Courtesy)
August 28, 2020, 8:10 am
With provocative paintings, young artist channels pandemic lockdown angst
Stuck at home in California and social distancing from friends, Ana Light, 20, illustrates the zeitgeist by portraying women wearing little more than masks as quarantine drags on
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rasmea Yousef Odeh, November 10, 2014. (AP/Carlos Osorio, File)
February 12, 2020, 11:43 pm
UC Berkeley student gov’t won’t condemn display featuring Palestinian terrorists
University committee vetoes 4-1 resolution to condemn exhibition celebrating three women convicted of terror attacks against Israelis
By Marcy Oster
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