August 20, 2025 Lawsuit accuses Berkeley of discriminating against professor for being Israeli (Washington Times) Published by The Washington Times on 08/20/2025 Job candidates rarely find out why they were rejected, but Yael Nativ says she knows exactly why she wasn’t rehired by the University of California, Berkeley: She’s Israeli. A university investigation determined that Ms. Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, was turned down for a second stint as […] Media Coverage
August 20, 2025 Why This Israeli Dance Professor Is Suing Berkeley (Free Press) Published by The Free Press on 08/20/2025 In the spring of 2022, Yael Nativ taught an Israeli contemporary dance class as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It went so well, she said, that she was encouraged to come back in the future. In August 2023, she submitted an application to teach the same […] Media Coverage
August 20, 2025 Top University Knowingly Rejected Professor’s Application For Being Israeli, Lawsuit Alleges (Daily Caller) Published by Daily Caller on 08/27/2025 The Brandeis Center filed a lawsuit against the University of California (UC) Berkeley for allegedly denying a professor’s job application because she is Israeli. Dr. Yael Nativ was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley in 2022 and was invited by fellow professors at the university to apply for another visiting position […] Media Coverage
August 20, 2025 UC Berkeley sued for allegedly rejecting Israeli professor over nationality (JNS) Published by JNS on 08/27/2025 The University of California, Berkeley, is facing a lawsuit alleging it violated state antidiscrimination laws when it rejected an Israeli professor’s teaching application because of her nationality. The suit was filed on Wednesday in California Superior Court by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the […] Media Coverage
August 7, 2025 S.F. union fights Jewish teacher who won back his dues over its anti-Israel activity (J Weekly) Published by J Weekly on 08/7/2025 Last fall, Lee Miller, a special education teacher at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, checked his work email after class and suddenly felt sick to his stomach. United Educators of San Francisco, the teachers union that Miller belonged to, had emailed a flyer to members promoting an “international […] Media Coverage
August 6, 2025 Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges (New York Times) Published by The New York Times on 8/6/2025 To show they are serious about stamping out campus antisemitism, some of the nation’s top universities are adding a powerful position to their administrative ranks. The position has a modest sounding title: Title VI coordinator. The responsibilities, however, are significant: to oversee and ensure compliance with Title VI […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 ‘Decolonizing Therapy’ and the erasure of Jewish identity in mental health (Jerusalem Post) Published by the Jerusalem Post on 7/29/25 Antisemitism is becoming increasingly more prevalent within therapy and therapeutic spaces. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law recently wrote about antisemitic incidents within the mental health sphere, including a Washington, DC-based therapist who refused to see a Jewish patient who had recently moved to the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 ‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference (Algemeiner) Published by the Algemeiner on 7/29/25 Over 1,000 Jewish students, faculty, and activists amassed in Washington, DC on July 27-29 to attend the Israel on Campus Coalition’s annual National Leadership Summit (NLS), an electric event which achieved creating the atmosphere of both a festival of Jewish elation and an academic conference. Founded in 2002, the […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? (LA Times) Published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/2/25 University of California leaders face a difficult choice after the U.S. Department of Justice said this week that UCLA had violated the civil rights of Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and federal agencies on Wednesday suspended more than $300 million in research grants to the school. Do they agree […] Media Coverage
August 5, 2025 California School District Rules Teacher Accused of Antisemitism Violated Policy (Algemeiner) Published by Algemeiner on 08/5/2025 A California school district which stands accused of refusing to address antisemitism has ruled that a teacher who allegedly showed her students antisemitic, discriminatory, and biased content violated policy when she screened an offensive video about the Holocaust in her classroom. The move, taken by the Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD), […] Media Coverage