SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� Two California colleges have reached settlements with Jewish organizations and individuals who filed complaints alleging arising from pro-Palestinian , including a $60,000 payment to an Israeli sociologist and dance researcher who says she was not rehired by the University of California, Berkeley despite the popularity of her class.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons on Wednesday issued an apology to Yael Nativ, a visiting 2022 professor who was found in a campus investigation to have been the victim of discrimination, the Los Angeles Times . She is also invited to teach her class in a semester of her choosing.
Nativ sued in state court this year after asking the university to follow up on the campus report by rehiring her and taking actions to prevent similar future incidents. She said she received what she described as an inadequate response.
At Pomona College, officials said they will hire a federal Title VI civil rights coordinator and create a 鈥渢ask force, committee or advisory council鈥� on Jewish life and antisemitism after a federal complaint filed last year with the Education Department alleged civil rights law violations during the school鈥檚 response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Some Jewish students said the protests created a 鈥渉ostile environment鈥� for them and said college leaders did little to enforce free speech and nondiscrimination rules.
The cases are part of broader allegations of bias against Jews and Muslims at colleges nationwide in the two years since the deadly October 2023 on Israel that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Gaza and the Middle East region. Israel鈥檚 government says it is ready to move into the next phase of President Donald
On Tuesday, UC Berkeley announced a six-month suspension without pay of a computer science lecturer, Peyrin Kao, for alleged pro-Palestinian political advocacy in the classroom, the San Francisco Chronicle .
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