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UC Berkeley offers Israeli dance scholar position after legal settlement over denied job

UC Berkeley said it will offer Israeli dance scholar Yael Nativ a teaching position after a legal settlement over a university finding that she was denied a role because of her Israeli identity.

|ByJTA/NIVA ASHKENAZI
The University of California, Berkeley
Israa al-Jaabis (L), a 32-year-old Palestinian woman who detonated a small bomb on October 11, 2015 on the highway leading from the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, arrives for her sentencing hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 7, 2016.

Failed car bomber released in October 7 deal gave video speech at Berkeley classroom

Jaabis was released in November 2023 as part of a ransom for 26 hostages captured by Gazans during the October 7 Massacre, according to the BBC.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
The University of California, Berkeley.

UC Berkeley agrees bans on Zionists ‘can violate university rules’ in antisemitism settlement

The university further agreed to pay $1 million to the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, with its senior litigation counsel describing the settlement as a "major milestone."

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

Israeli UC Berkeley student files lawsuit against antisemitic discrimination

The student claimed that the UAW violated both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.

|ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN

UC Berkeley Chancellor: Honoring terrorists who killed Jews 'an affront'

The Chancellor condemned a pro-Palestinian group who lauded terrorists in a display on campus, but also slammed a Jewish student who wanted to 'eliminate' all Palestinians.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
Jewish groups at UC Berkeley campus rally against anti-Israeli events

UC Berkeley student gov't does not condemn pro-Palestinian display

Many of the Jewish students who attended the meeting to support Bears for Palestine called out “You don’t speak for us” to Nathan Bentolila, who said the university is "not united against hate."

FEBRUARY 13, 2020ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 12, 2014

UC Berkeley creates its first faculty chair in Israel Studies

"In today’s heated climate and often challenging environment for students and faculty on campus, this is sorely needed."

MAY 3, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Berkeley University (370)