A legal complaint has been filed with the federal government against Berkeley Law School over the adoption of a bylaw by several student groups barring speakers that support “Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”
A groundbreaking legal complaint has been filed with the federal government against Berkeley Law School over the adoption of a bylaw by several student groups barring speakers that support “Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.”
The complaint, filed by attorneys Arsen Ostrovsky and Gabriel Groisman, called on the U.S. Department of Education Office of Human Rights to review the “profound and deep-seated antisemitic discrimination” against Jewish students, faculty and staff at UC Berkeley Law School, which they claimed was a violation of the Civil Rights Act which bars recipients of federal funding from discriminating on the basis of “race, color, and national origin.
“UC Berkeley is not only the ideological center of progressiveness in higher education, but in recent years, has become a hotbed of antisemitism and Jew hatred, where Jewish students are now being forced to either renounce or deny such an integral part of their identity, as Zionism,” Ostrovsky told Breitbart News.
Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, himself a self-styled “progressive Zionist,” denounced the bylaw, explaining it would mean that he himself and 90% of Jewish students would be banned from speaking. In October, Chemerinsky signed a statement by the law faculty in conjunction with the Academic Engagement Network that reaffirmed “the principle of free and open speech” to include pro-Zionist speakers.
Nine student groups at the University of California Berkeley Law School have banned any speakers that support Israel or Zionism, meaning that the overwhelming majority of Jews will be excluded from addressing those groups.
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