Media Coverage

Published by the Daily Californian on 12/12/2025 The UC Board of Regents settled a discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this year by UC Berkeley visiting dance professor Yael Nativ on Monday. Under the settlement, campus acknowledged that Nativ faced discrimination based on her Israeli national origin when her application to return to teach was denied, which is a […]

Published by The Jewish Voice on 12/11/2025 The University of California, Berkeley’s agreement this week to pay a substantial monetary settlement and issue a formal apology to Israeli dance scholar Dr. Yael Nativ marks far more than the conclusion of a personnel dispute. It encapsulates a deeper reckoning within American higher education — one in […]

Published by The Press Enterprise on 12/11/2025 A settlement has been reached after a complaint alleging Pomona College allowed discrimination and harassment of Jewish students. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Hillel International and the Anti-Defamation League announced in a Wednesday, Dec. 10, news release that the settlement would lead to reforms to address antisemitism and enhance protections for […]

Published by The Algemeiner on 12/10/2025 The University of California, Berkeley has agreed to pay a five-figure sum to settle claims that it unlawfully denied a teaching position to a dance instructor because she is Israeli, both the victim’s legal counsel, provided by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and the school […]

Published by The Jewish News of Northern California (JWeekly) on 12/10/2025 UC Berkeley’s chancellor will apologize to an Israeli dance scholar who the university acknowledges was discriminated against when she was denied a job just weeks after Oct. 7, 2023, due to her nationality. The apology is part of a settlement announced Wednesday between UC […]

Published by JNS on 12/10/2025 The Regents of the University of California, a 26-person body that governs the public school system, agreed on Wednesday to pay $116,000 to Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance instructor, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law to settle a lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias. The center and […]

Published by the Claremont Independent on 12/10/2025 Pomona College resolved a Title VI complaint with the Brandeis Center, Anti-Defamation League and Hillel International on Wednesday, agreeing to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism, appoint a Title VI coordinator, and update speech and demonstration policies, among other provisions. “We are pleased to […]

Published by the Los Angeles Times on 12/10/2025 Two prominent California higher education institutions said Wednesday they have reached settlement agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about alleged antisemitism stemming from pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2023 and 2024. UC Berkeley said it agreed to pay an Israeli sociologist and dance researcher $60,000 […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 12/10/2025 As part of a settlement reached on Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley acknowledged it discriminated against an Israeli former professor, and offered suggestions to remedy the situation, two years after the school disinvited her from teaching a course on Israeli dance, Jewish Insider has learned.  Dance professor Yael Nativ filed […]

Published by Fox 5 DC on 11/19/2025 A private school in northern Virginia has reached a settlement with a Jewish family who alleged their children were wrongfully expelled after they reported antisemitic harassment.

Published by WUSA9 on 11/19/2025 HERNDON, Va. — Two parents will get $100,000 in settlement money from the Nysmith School in Herndon after accusing the northern Virginia private school and its principal of expelling their children because they complained about antisemitic bullying. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced the settlement on Tuesday, saying that “every child […]

Published by The Washington Times on 11/18/2025 A Virginia family settled with the Nysmith School for Gifted Children on Tuesday after the parents alleged that the school condoned antisemitic bullying of their 11-year-old daughter and then expelled the girl and her two siblings when concerns were brought to administrators. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 11/18/2025 A private K-8 school in Northern Virginia reached a settlement on Tuesday with the parents of an 11-year-old Jewish student who say their daughter faced months of antisemitic harassment that went unaddressed by school officials.  According to the complaint, filed in July with the Office for Civil Rights in the […]

Published by the Times of Israel on 11/18/2025 A top US private school in northern Virginia has settled a lawsuit over its expulsion of three Jewish students after their parents complained about repeated antisemitic bullying, lawyers for the parents and the state attorney general said on Tuesday. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights […]

Published by the Washington Post on 11/18/2025 A Virginia private school has agreed to adopt new policies to combat religious discrimination and pay $100,000 to a Jewish couple after the parents alleged that one of their children was bullied with antisemitic taunts and that the school’s headmaster reacted by expelling the girl and two of […]

Published by New York Post on 11/14/2025 The union repping taxpayer-funded Legal Aid lawyers agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by members who were allegedly ridiculed and targeted for opposing a union-approved anti-Israel resolution as antisemitic. The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Local 2325, agreed to pay the three pro-Israel members a total of $315,000 […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 11/14/2025 The historic rise of antisemitism brought on by the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks has posed a unique set of challenges to lawyers litigating incidents targeting Jewish students and employees.   More than 60 attorneys and heads of Jewish legal organizations gathered on Monday for an inaugural legal summit in […]

Published by JNS on 11/13/2025 The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law said on Thursday that it and the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys had agreed to settle a lawsuit, which the center filed last year on behalf of three members of the union, and to pay the three $315,000. The Brandeis […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 11/13/2025 The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, a union representing over 3,000 legal workers, has acknowledged “inappropriate” communication around Israel and antisemitism as part of a settlement reached on Thursday brought on behalf of three union members who sued to block an anti-Israel resolution proposed weeks after the Oct. 7, […]

Published by Reuters on 11/13/2025 A union representing New York-based legal aid lawyers said Thursday it will pay $315,000 to settle claims that it tried to retaliate against three of its members after they challenged the union’s issuance of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and “an end to Israeli apartheid.” As part of the […]