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Berkeley Law

UC Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk attempts to get law student Malak Afaneh to leave the home Fisk shares with her husband, Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky, on April 9, 2024. (Screenshot via Instagram)
Posted inBay Area

Anti-Israel protester disrupts Berkeley law dean’s backyard dinner, refuses to leave

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 10, 2024April 15, 2024

What was meant to be a congratulatory spring dinner for graduating students at the home of UC Berkeley’s law school dean turned confrontational on Tuesday night when a pro-Palestinian protester […]

This billboard at 52nd St. and Telegraph Ave. in Oakland paid for by JewBelong originally said, "You don't need to go to law school to know anti-Zionism is antisemitism," but was vandalized by an anonymous group of Jewish activists to read, "You don't need to go to law school to know anti-Zionism is anti-racism."  (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

Anti-Zionist Jewish activists claim credit for latest billboard defacement

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene February 1, 2023
A JewBelong billboard at  San Pablo Ave. and Hearst St. in Berkeley had the words "Free Palestine!" spray-painted on it. (Photo/Courtesy JewBelong)
Posted inLetters

JewBelong billboards, for and against; Human composting is obscene; etc.

by J. Readers February 1, 2023February 1, 2023
An Israeli flag waving in the wind
Posted inOpinion

When did Zionists become snowflakes?

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward January 24, 2023
A JewBelong billboard at  San Pablo Ave. and Hearst St. in Berkeley had the words "Free Palestine!" spray-painted on it. (Photo/Courtesy JewBelong)
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Provocative JewBelong billboards vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ in Berkeley

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 23, 2023January 24, 2023
The Accuracy in Media truck parked in front of the family home of a Berkeley Law student.
Posted inBay Area

Family homes of Berkeley Law students targeted by conservative media group

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 17, 2023January 18, 2023
The Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo/Tristan Harward via Wikimedia Commons)
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Department of Education to investigate UC Berkeley amid law school Zionism controversy

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 15, 2022December 15, 2022
Students walk past a building at the UC Berkeley's law school, Jan. 30, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jane Tyska-Digital First Media-East Bay Times via Getty Images)
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Civil rights claim accuses Berkeley Law of discrimination against Jews

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman November 21, 2022November 22, 2022
A truck parked near UC Berkeley by Accuracy in Media flashed names of students the group accuses of being antisemitic, Oct. 26, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
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Conservative group’s truck display names Cal students it accuses of antisemitism

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene October 27, 2022October 28, 2022
Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)
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Cal parent weighs in on Berkeley Law; Change name of Stow Lake; etc.

by J. Readers October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

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