Opinion I’m South African. Calling Israel ‘apartheid’ puts the BS in BDS. By Klaas Mokgomole Apr 22, 2022 As a South African, it was a real privilege to visit UC Berkeley on April 7 as part of the American tour of Africans for Peace. I was able to get a sense of the scholarship and the history, as well…
Tu B'Shevat How to put viable climate solutions into the hands of the people By David Arfin Jan 13, 2022 I’m a clean energy entrepreneur. I am also proudly Jewish. For me, being Jewish in our complicated and interdependent world demands applying guiding principles to address the key issues of our time.…
Israel on Campus UC Berkeley, wake up: SJP peddles hate, not justice By Nathan Bentolila Nov 14, 2018 Students for Justice in Palestine is preparing for its annual national conference on the UCLA campus Nov. 16-18. The event page for “Resistance in the Face of Adversity” states at the outset that…
Tech ‘They don’t care’: Why it’s so hard to take hate sites off the internet By Arno Rosenfeld, Forward May 19, 2022 After a white supremacist allegedly gunned down 10 African-Americans at a Buffalo grocery store Saturday, two of the social media websites he used to plan and promote the attack — Twitch and Discord…
Letters Doing right by disabled Jews; Sierra Club, continued; AIPAC and the Dems; etc. By J. Readers Apr 4, 2022 Doing right by disabled Jews I am so thankful to Mariyama Scott for her wise words and for sharing her truth, and that of many more people, at this moment in Covid life (“Plea from a disabled Jew:…
California UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among Jewish students By Ryan Torok, Forward Mar 16, 2021 The undergraduate student government organization at University of California, Los Angeles has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the UC system to divest from companies that allegedly profit…
Israel on Campus UC Berkeley students file complaint to block SJP Pittsburgh-Gaza vigil By J. Staff Nov 15, 2018 Anti-Zionist groups are planning a Nov. 22 vigil at UC Berkeley in memory of the 11 Jews murdered in a Pittsburgh synagogue and Palestinians killed during recent clashes at the Israel-Gaza border.…
Bay Area S.F. State student government considers BDS resolution By Gabriel Greschler Oct 14, 2020 San Francisco State University’s student government is considering a resolution that calls for the university to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel by pulling out of…
Editorial Leila Khaled has nothing to teach S.F. State students By J. Editorial Board Sep 17, 2020 On Sept. 23, Leila Khaled is scheduled to address San Francisco State students in an “open classrooms” event titled “Gender, Justice and Resistance” and hosted by a division of the College of Ethnic…
Local Voice It’s ethnic studies in universities that need watching By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin Aug 4, 2021 While California’s Jewish community has been focused on how ethnic studies curricula and legislation will affect Jewish children in K-12, far too little attention has been paid to ground zero in the…
Bay Area Pro-Palestinian group protests $10m Diller gift to Berkeley Law By Maya Mirsky Apr 14, 2021 A group of law students is demanding that Berkeley Law reject a recent $10 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation to a university institute focused on Israel and Jewish studies. The gift was…
Bay Area Jewish USF student files complaint over email’s ‘delegitimization’ of Israel By Gabriel Greschler Jun 2, 2021 UPDATED: June 7, 3:30 p.m. As the Israel-Hamas conflict was raging last month, a program assistant at the University of San Francisco forwarded an email to a group of students in the School of…
Bay Area Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian groups clash at UC Berkeley student union meeting By Gabe Stutman Feb 5, 2020 UPDATE: The resolution failed in committee on Feb. 10. A meeting of the UC Berkeley student union deteriorated into shouting and threats this week as pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates clashed…
Bay Area Three South Bay colleges pass resolutions condemning Israel By Gabriel Greschler Jun 18, 2021 Student governments at two community colleges and one university in the South Bay have passed resolutions that strongly condemn Israel’s actions during the recent 11-day conflict with Hamas and call…
Opinion Students for Justice in Palestine violates Stanford values By J. Correspondent Feb 20, 2015 “Don’t come back,” was the last thing I heard as I walked out of the recent screening of “Tears of Gaza” by Stanford’s Students for Justice in Palestine. The reason for this enmity directed at me? I…
Bay Area S.F. State event with Leila Khaled, briefly hosted on YouTube, is taken down By Gabriel Greschler Sep 23, 2020 Updated: 4:40 p.m., Sept. 23, 2020 After livestreaming for about 23 minutes on YouTube, today’s roundtable conversation from San Francisco State University featuring Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled…
Bay Area USF closes Instagram account after ‘disturbing’ posts about Israel-Gaza conflict By Gabriel Greschler May 20, 2021 A University of San Francisco Instagram page was deactivated Wednesday after a student behind the account published a post about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which was later condemned by the…
Bay Area S.F. State president opposes student government’s BDS resolution By Gabriel Greschler Nov 24, 2020 UPDATED Nov. 25, 8:30 a.m. San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney said she will not support a boycott, divestment and sanctions resolution against Israel that was recently passed by…
Letters Shame on Bernie; Voting on ‘Torah values’; No such thing as too much justice; etc. By J. Readers Mar 6, 2020 A brave commentary Wow. Meyer Lewis’ drash (“Was Abraham autistic?”) on Abraham’s differing responses to Sodom and Gomorrah versus the Akedah was articulate and insightful, not to mention…
Bay Area S.F. State terrorist talk under examination by feds; sanctions possible By Gabe Stutman Nov 9, 2020 The U.S. Department of Education says it has referred claims of wrongdoing by San Francisco State University to three federal agencies for possible sanction in the wake of a controversial public…
Local Voice Being a Jew at a notoriously anti-Israel college is exhausting By Bria Rosenberg Jul 8, 2019 I’m tired. This is a common sentiment shared by many Jewish students across campus at UC Berkeley. Before continuing, I would like to emphasize that I am just one voice, one student in a diverse…
Youth Voice Students are key to fighting antisemitism in high schools. I should know. By Michaela Pelta Jan 11, 2021 As a leader in my school and a Jewish Student Union liaison for the West Coast, I was contacted by multiple Jewish students who presented me with images of inappropriate social media postings by…
Bay Area Leila Khaled event at S.F. State gets Israeli Knesset’s attention By Gabe Stutman Sep 17, 2020 After drawing outrage from Bay Area Jewish organizations, an upcoming video event hosted by San Francisco State professors featuring a Palestinian militant who hijacked two commercial airliners has…
Local Voice In Santa Cruz, building a college pro-Israel community in challenging times By Elior Amar Nov 30, 2020 Five years ago, the Northern California campus where I now serve as an Israeli emissary experienced arguably its most infamous antisemitic moment. On Nov. 17, 2015, a Jewish member of the UC Santa…