FIRE FIRE responded to the kerfuffle Tues. at the Berkeley dean's home. Seen as a successor to the ACLU..FIRE also defends pro-Palestinian speech.
'Peaceful protest on public campuses is protected speech. Disruptive protest and trespassing on private property is not.'

Here's the San Francisco Chronicle's brief definition of 'Zionism' from a veteran reporter, in an article on the Chemerinsky controversy. Zionism 'defines the land of Israel as a Jewish sate.' Hm. Kind of the other way 'round. Zionism was the movement to establish a Jewish state in Israel.

NEW: A Jewish dad is suing Berkeley schools for records re: an ethnic studies lesson on Israel-Palestine that his son took. We obtained the curriculum-- it 'could have been worse,' the dad said, but includes a number of slides from Al Jazeera. J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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Please register to join us tonight at University of California, Longbeach (on ZOOM from Jerusalem) at 7pmIST/9amPST to discuss 'Zionism and Its Critics' -- basically a very condensed version of a course I sometimes teach -- to learn more about Zionism(s) & Anti-Zionism(s) today!

I’m in Santa Ana today for opening arguments in the trial of Samuel Woodward, who is accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, a gay Jewish college student who was his former classmate, in 2018.

Woodward was a member of Atomwaffen, an American neo-Nazi group. Updates here 🧵

but there is no connection between hating Israel and simply hating Jews

NEW: Elements of a pro-Palestinian protest on Saturday in Palo Alto worried Jewish residents and the JCRC, like body armor worn by some, and Palestinian flags outside City Hall where the the U.S. and California flags usually fly. Full story in J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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NEW: A striking federal complaint filed yesterday against UC Davis lists dozens of incidents targeting Zionist students, a rash of graffiti, pro-Israel Jews being excluded from groups and housing, and calls for violence, including from faculty. J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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The word we use to describe mass panic over “associations” with an idea—an insistence on absolute purity by an ever-shrinking in-group, leading inexorably to a type of circular firing squad—-is McCarthyism. few Gen z know what this is, so it will just repeat

NEW: Hate crimes against Jews in San Francisco increased 4X last year from 2022, making Jews the most targeted group in the city. (Though not as badly targeted as Asians in 2021). In J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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Ok the first part isn't funny but the second part is hilarious.

NEW: A 'bloody' and theatrical protest greeted Miss Israel on Friday in SF, where the beauty queen was called 'Miss Genocide' by protesters. Noa Cochva spoke at a synagogue about serving as an IDF medic, treating both Israelis and Palestinians. J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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NEW: UC Berkeley police published photos of 5 people they suspect of committing crimes during the Feb. 26 riot that shut down a talk with an IDF reserve officer. Two hate crimes and an assault on a police officer were reported. Story in J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
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