Jewish Student Union

The ASUC senate amended and passed “A Bill Condemning Anti-Semitism” to include clauses concerning the creation of a senate ad hoc committee on the subject at a meeting Wednesday night.

An Israel Defense Forces combat veteran delivered a controversial public address on campus Tuesday evening calling for the reform of Israeli-Palestinian relations and an end to the Israeli occupation of disputed territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The campus Jewish Student Union voted Wednesday to deny membership to J Street U at Berkeley, a Jewish student political advocacy group on campus whose application to join the union was also denied two years ago after facing accusations of being anti-Israel.

On Tuesday the federal government dismissed a complaint that UC Berkeley administrators did not do enough to curb “an environment hostile to Jewish students” as a result of student demonstrations against Israeli policies.

Holding Israeli flags and standing with locked arms, a group of students gathered at noon Thursday on Sather Gate to protest a recent ASUC bill pushing for Israeli military divestment.

ASUC President Connor Landgraf announced Tuesday that he will not be vetoing SB 160, a bill that seeks the divestment of ASUC funds from companies associated with the Israeli military and encourages the UC to do the same.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild have called on UC leaders to establish a more balanced approach concerning student activism around Israeli-Palestinian conflict.