Bay Area St. Mary’s postpones event with Israel critic Hatem Bazian By Gabriel Greschler Sep 8, 2021 An event at St. Mary’s College in Moraga featuring Hatem Bazian, an Islamic law and theology scholar who is an outspoken critic of Israel, has been postponed after “concerns” were raised about the…
Education Was this rabbi too pro-Israel to head GTU? By Gabe Stutman Aug 6, 2020 Updated Aug. 14 at 10:00 a.m. Last fall, Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union made history by inaugurating its first non-Christian president — an Orthodox-trained rabbi — to lead the esteemed…
Obituaries Remembering Rob Gloster, 62, our treasured friend and colleague By Dan Pine Apr 11, 2019 Amid our grief in the J. office over the death this week of reporter Rob Gloster, the staff recognized an absurd irony: The guy who in life insisted on disappearing behind the veil of journalistic…
Letters Ocasio-Cortez is wrong; Berkeley is an alternate universe; etc. By J. Readers Dec 14, 2018 Make a call, save the world Thank you for your moving editorial “After the wildfires, we know what to do” on Nov. 16. In this season of giving, I could not agree more that disaster relief is…
Letters Danger of fasting for rain; Bazian a ‘crusader for all’; Jews who support Trump By J. Readers Nov 29, 2018 Does God hear our prayers? Regarding David A.M. Wilensky’s article “Will this Oakland rabbi’s three-day fast bring the rains?,” I’ll grant that my colleague Rabbi Mark Bloom’s assessment that “it’s…
Israel on Campus 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…
Bay Area Berkeley mayor objects to Bazian appointment By Rob Gloster Nov 9, 2018 Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is not pleased with the appointment of controversial UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian to the city’s Peace and Justice Commission, saying Bazian is not qualified to…
Letters ‘I no longer will remain quiet’; Trump is to blame; our print redesign is ‘gimmicky’ By J. Readers Nov 1, 2018 Taking care of our own I read the Oct. 16 article in J. about Gregory Janz’s funeral (“What happens when a Jew dies in poverty?“) and decided to donate a memorial plaque in our…
Opinion Berkeley city council tolerates anti-Semitism By David Kadosh, Susan B. Tuchman Oct 22, 2018 Why are the city manager and the mayor of Berkeley closing their eyes to powerful evidence of anti-Semitic bigotry and discrimination in city government? Last January, the Zionist Organization of…
Bay Area Bazian on Berkeley peace commission By Rob Gloster Oct 9, 2018 UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, the founder of American Muslims for Palestine, has been appointed to the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, a 15-member board that advises the city council and…
Bay Area Concerns over city council role for Bazian By Rob Gloster Aug 2, 2018 Three Berkeley rabbis are among the Jewish community members objecting to the nomination of UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, the founder of American Muslims for Palestine, to be a standby officer…
Local Voice Why this Islamophobia confab in Berkeley was a lie-fest By Lee Kaplan May 22, 2018 Hatem Bazian is a senior lecturer in the Near East Studies Department at UC Berkeley and founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project in UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender.…
Bay Area Zoabi's Bay Area trip sparks Knesset hearing By J. Staff Apr 26, 2018 Israel’s Knesset Ethics Committee plans to hold a hearing on controversial MK Haneen Zoabi, in response to statements she made during an April 17 interview with J. and in a lecture later that evening…
Bay Area Berkeley city councilmember accused of applying Israel litmus By Dan Pine Dec 15, 2017 A member of the Berkeley City Council has been accused of applying a political litmus test regarding support for Israel to a sitting Berkeley commissioner, who was dismissed when he did not provide a…
Letters Settlements, coexistence, whatever — lay off Federation’s donor-advised grants By J. Readers Dec 10, 2017 Jews and Israel: a love story Many thanks to J. for covering the opening of the Simon Wiesenthal-UNESCO traveling exhibit “People, Book, Land: The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People with…
Israel on Campus Berkeley faculty side with Jewish students against Bazian By J. Staff Dec 6, 2017 Sixteen UC Berkeley professors sent a letter to J. on Dec. 6 applauding four Jewish student groups for their statement regarding lecturer and Students for Justice in Palestine founder Hatem Bazian.…
Israel on Campus Cal responds to calls for action against SJP founder Bazian By Dan Pine Dec 5, 2017 A UC Berkeley official has responded to an open letter sent to university administrators by four Jewish student groups that urged “decisive action” in response to anti-Semitic tweets retweeted by…
Israel on Campus Jewish groups at UC Berkeley urge action against SJP founder By Dan Pine Dec 1, 2017 A coalition of four UC Berkeley Jewish student groups sent a letter to university administrators, urging “decisive action” in response to anti-Semitic tweets sent by Ethnic Studies lecturer and…
Israel on Campus Cal lecturer apologizes for anti-Semitic tweet By Rob Gloster Nov 21, 2017 UC Berkeley officials today condemned university lecturer Hatem Bazian for retweeting cartoons the school determined had “crossed the line” into anti-Semitism. Bazian apologized and said “the image…
Letters By J. Correspondent Sep 23, 2016 ‘Judaism lite’ should not be glorified on cover I had some difficulty initially identifying my discomfort with J.’s decision to devote the cover to a progressive rabbi who marries a…
Palestine course reinstated at Berkeley, draws Jewish ire By Drew Himmelstein Sep 23, 2016 Jewish organizations went from praising U.C. Berkeley to again criticizing it this week as the university reinstated a student-led course about the history of Palestine that it had previously…
Editorial | For a more responsible college course on Palestine By J. Correspondent Sep 16, 2016 College is a place for students to expand their intellectual boundaries, preparing them to take their place in…
Jewish groups commend U.C. Berkeley for canceling student-led Palestine course By Drew Himmelstein Sep 16, 2016 Jewish community leaders praised U.C. Berkeley’s suspension of a student-led course, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” one day after they had attacked the class as biased, anti-Zionist and in…
Bay Area U.C. Berkeley suspends student-led Palestine course after Jewish outcry By Drew Himmelstein Sep 14, 2016 U.C. Berkeley has suspended a student-led course, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after an outcry from Jewish community leaders who called it biased, anti-Zionist and in…
New semester means new anti-Israel protest at Cal By Dan Pine Sep 26, 2014 An anti-Israel rally on the U.C. Berkeley campus and a pro-Israel counterprotest in the same plaza became a contest in effective street theater this week. The so-called “International Day of…