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Two California Colleges have reached a compromise Jewish Organizations and individuals filed complaints alleging anti-Semitism stemming from pro-Palestinian campus protests, including a $60,000 payment to one individual. Israel Sociologist and dance researcher who says she was not rehired by the University of California, Berkeley, despite the popularity of her class.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons apologized Wednesday to a Yale native, a Class of 2022 visiting professor who was found to be the victim of discrimination in a campus investigation, the Los Angeles Times reports. He is also invited to teach his class in the semester of his choice.
Nativ filed suit in state court this year, asking the university to follow up on the campus report by re-hiring him and taking action to prevent similar incidents in the future. He said the response he received was inadequate.
At Pomona College, officials said they would hire a federal Title VI civil rights coordinator and create a “task force, committee or advisory council” on Jewish life and anti-Semitism after a federal complaint filed with the Education Department last year alleged violations of civil rights law during the school’s response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Some Jewish students said the protests created a “hostile environment” for them and said college leaders did nothing to enforce free speech and non-discrimination rules.
The cases are part of widespread allegations of bias against Jews and Muslims at colleges across the country in the two years since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, which killed thousands of people in Gaza and the Middle East region. Israel’s government says it is ready to move forward with the next phase of President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire agreement.
On Tuesday, UC Berkeley announced the six-month suspension without pay of Peirin Cao, a computer science lecturer, for alleged pro-Palestinian political advocacy in the classroom. san francisco The Chronicle reported.