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Students and faculty rally at the University of California, Berkeley campus to protest the Trump administration's crackdown on universities over antisemitism, on March 19, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
March 21, 2026, 12:59 am
In settlement, UC Berkeley agrees that bans on Zionists ‘can violate university rules’
University will rescind student group bylaws barring invitation of ‘Zionist’ speakers to campus, pay $1 million to the Brandeis Center in response to antisemitism lawsuit
By Andrew Lapin
IMAGE: A pro-Israel protester outside Columbia University in Manhattan, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)
December 11, 2025, 3:44 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 797 — Final Columbia antisemitism report reveals classroom aggressions
NY correspondent Luke Tress discusses the final task force report on the campus that spawned student encampments during the Hamas war, and antisemitism and anti-Zionism at 2 California colleges
By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress
Illustrative: A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protest at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)
December 10, 2025, 6:45 pm
In legal settlement, UC Berkeley acknowledges discriminating against Israeli prof
California university’s chancellor apologizes to Dr. Yael Nativ for faculty member blocking her job application due to her Israeli identity, says she will be welcomed back
By Luke Tress
(L to R) Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Olof Ramstroem, Member of the Nobel Committe for Chemistry, pose with a model during a press conference to announce Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar M. Yaghi as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 8, 2025, 4:45 pm
US scientist of Palestinian descent among three winners of Nobel prize for chemistry
Omar Yaghi, born and raised in Amman, shares award with two others for work on molecular architecture; first Palestinian Nobel laureate since Arafat; also won Israeli award in 2018
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Political activist David Horowitz addresses attendees of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando, Florida, August 30, 2013.(AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
May 1, 2025, 12:20 pm
David Horowitz, radical American leftist turned right-wing firebrand, dies at 86
A supporter of the Black Panthers in 1960s Berkeley, writer and activist later evolved into a conservative thought leader whose criticism of Islam drew accusations of bigotry
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protest at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)
April 2, 2025, 11:49 pm
Lawsuit accusing UC Berkeley of tolerating antisemitism can proceed, US judge rules
Court refuses to weigh in on assertion that Zionism is core tenet of Judaism, saying doing so would be unconstitutional, but allows equal protection and civil rights claims
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2025, 11:06 am
Trump administration opens antisemitism probes into 5 colleges, including Columbia
US Department of Education investigating Columbia, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, University of Minnesota, and Portland State University, says it’s putting all schools ‘on notice’
By AP and ToI Staff
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
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