UC Berkeley’s campus is in turmoil. It’s unlike anything in recent memory.
Liberal members of the state’s legislative Jewish caucus have publicly castigated UC Berkeley for its handling of hostility toward Jewish students and professors amid the war. They’re pushing state laws targeting antisemitism in response to the events — including a violent protest of an Israeli speaker in late February that forced Jewish students to be evacuated.
“There is nothing more indicative of the failure of our college campuses to protect students and protect free speech,” Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat who was UC Berkeley’s student body president in 2002, said of the incident.