California colleges agree settlements over antisemitism complaints

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• She is also invited to teach her class in a semester of her choosing.“I respect and appreciate Dr Nativ’s decision to settle this case,” Lyons said in a statement.
• “She is owed the apology I will provide on behalf of our campus.
• We look forward to welcoming Dr Nativ back to Berkeley to teach again.”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 “taskforce, committee or advisory council” on Jewish life and antisemitism after a federal complaint filed last year with the education department alleged civil rights law violations during the school’s response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Some Jewish students said the protests created a “hostile environment” 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 Hamas attack on Israel sparked fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in Gaza and the Middle East region.
• Israel’s government says it is ready to move into the next phase of Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire agreement. 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 Daily Californian first reported. Explore more on these topicsUS universitiesCaliforniaAntisemitismWest CoastnewsShareReuse this content.