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    Lawsuit accuses UC Berkeley of fostering antisemitism. Dean calls accusations 'stunningly inaccurate'

    by Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2023 4 minutes
    Erwin Chemerinsky speaks onstage at Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards honoring 2017 recipients at The Playboy Mansion on Aug. 7, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.

    UC Berkeley is being sued by Jewish groups claiming that the university has fostered a "longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism" on campus — an accusation that university officials say paints a distorted and inaccurate picture of the school.

    Filed Tuesday by the Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, the complaint alleges Berkeley Law, the university law school, has "failed to confront, much less combat" antisemitism and that policies adopted by some student organizations discriminate against Jewish students. The lawsuit also alleges students have faced violence and harassment since Oct. 7, when Hamas launched an attack in Israel, killing about 1,200 people.

    "The University has enabled the normalization of anti-Jewish hatred on campus,"

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