Palestine Legal

The International Legal Forum, or ILF, along with Florida-based attorney Gabriel Groisman, claimed [UC Berkeley Law School] *Berkeley Law* is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a [Nov. 18] complaint *filed Nov. 18* over the decision to allow several campus student groups to enact bylaws banning Zionist speakers.

Hate speech posters alleging a student organization was connected to a "terror organization" were plastered around campus on Thursday, naming and criticizing several students and faculty members for their involvement in Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP.

On Monday, Carla Hesse, executive dean of the College of Letters and Science, rescinded her suspension of the controversial DeCal course previously titled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis.”

On Tuesday, UC Berkeley suspended an erroneously approved student-led DeCal called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” that many in the Jewish community alleged was politically bent.

At least five hate-speech posters — with at least two naming six current and former UC Berkeley students for their involvement in either the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement or Students for Justice in Palestine — were found plastered at various sites around campus Monday.

A Berkeley resident was removed from a city commission last week after she brought forth proposal to divest city funds from companies affiliated with the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

A state Senate resolution that would urge the University of California to condemn anti-Semitism and racism on its campuses has drawn objections from organizations who say the legislation’s definition of anti-Semitism would stifle free speech.