Jewish students have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the University of California of allowing the “longstanding and rampant spread of anti-Semitism” on its Berkeley campus.
The lawsuit claims that hatred of Jews has “boomed over” following the Hamas terrorist group’s October 7 sneak attack on Israel, even citing statements in the complaint by Cal-Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky himself. .
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Northern California District Court in San Francisco, plaintiffs representing Jewish students (the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and American Jews for Educational Equity) They noted that about two dozen student groups ban Zionist speakers.
The ban is blatant discrimination since nearly all Jews identify as Zionists or believers in the Jewish State of Israel, according to the complaint.
Since Oct. 7, anti-Semitism has been rampant at the school, according to the complaint, citing numerous incidents of bullying, harassment and physical violence against Jewish students.
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For example, during one of the many demonstrations held at the University of California at Berkeley to celebrate Hamas, a Jewish student wrapped in an Israeli flag was attacked by two protesters who hit him on the head with a metal water bottle.
Jewish students filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the University of California of failing to stop anti-Semitism. AP
Since Oct. 7, anti-Semitism has been rampant at the school, according to the complaint, citing numerous incidents of bullying, harassment and physical violence against Jewish students. AP
Jewish students and teachers also receive hate mail calling for their gassing and murder. Many Jewish students say they are afraid to go to class, according to the lawsuit.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters, who frequently chant “Intifada, Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” disrupted a prayer meeting of Jewish students, according to the lawsuit.
In another incident, a UC Berkeley professor went on an 18-minute anti-Israel rant in a discussion with 1,000 freshmen.
The lawsuit quotes Chemerinsky, who said in a column: “I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but I have never in my life seen or felt the anti-Semitism of recent weeks.”
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include both former and current Jewish students.
The lawsuit names the University of California Regents, UC President Michael Drake, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and others as defendants.
The administration of the U. of California and the Cal-Berkeley campus did not immediately comment.
New York universities have also been criticized for alleged anti-Semitism.
Three New York universities — Columbia, Cornell and Cooper Union — are among seven schools investigated by the Department of Education over allegations of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on campus. A Cornell student was recently arrested for threatening to kill Jews.
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