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A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

Israeli UC Berkeley student files lawsuit against antisemitic discrimination

By ARIELA OHRENSTEIN

Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024 in Berkeley, California

UC Berkeley advertises Lit course which praises Hamas as a 'revolutionary resistance force'

By Mathilda Heller

Simcha Rothman speaking at the Knesset on 6.8.2024

Protestors disrupt Berkeley event featuring MK Simcha Rothman

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester uses a bullhorn during a demonstration on the UC Berkeley campus on Monday.

Oakland man arrested for four anti-Israel UC Berkeley arson attacks

By MICHAEL STARR

A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester uses a bullhorn during a demonstration on the UC Berkeley campus on Monday.

Anti-Israel activists allegedly throw firebomb at UC Berkeley building

By MICHAEL STARR

School district grilled at Congress clashed with parent over Gaza war lessons

School district grilled by Congress accused of teaching one-sided lessons on Gaza

By MICHAEL STARR

A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester uses a bullhorn during a demonstration on the UC Berkeley campus on Monday.

'Go back to Europe': Anti-Israel protesters punch Israel activist in head at UC Berkeley

By MICHAEL STARR

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, this week in New York City; just as Jews were once banned from universities in Europe under the Nazis right before the Holocaust, today, Jewish students at Columbia face similar discrimination and fear, the writer warns.

You are poison Ivy: Taking action as antisemitism storms American universities

By AYA SHECHTER

A screenshot of Berkeley Law for Palestine's Instagram, depicting Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Anti-Israel protesters crash dinner at Jewish Berkeley dean's home

By MICHAEL STARR

Hebrew Olympiad - Yuval and Rotem (12/4/2024)

Hebrew language Olympiad celebrates record participation in its third year

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE WRITER speaks at a ‘Liberate the Gate’ event at UC Berkeley, last month, calling on the university to respond to antisemitism on campus.

Not the college dream: The harsh reality of Jewish student activism

By DANIELLE SOBKIN

A person holds an antisemitic sign showing a Star of David in the trash at a demonstration against Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as part of a student walkout by students of New York University, in New York City, U.S., October 25, 2023.

Berkeley activists heckle Holocaust survivor, laugh at antisemitism story

By MICHAEL STARR

Pro-Israel students at the University of Berkeley demonstrate next to Pro-Palestinian students.

Ending his sit-in, UC Berkeley professor says campus response to antisemitism has improved

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Holocaust survivor Ben Stern (blue shirt) leads 200 marchers in the "Bay Area Rally Against Hate" in Berkeley in August 2017. He is linking arms with his daughter Charlene Stern and Rabbi Menachem Creditor; Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley is at far left.

California Jewish students stage 'sleep-in' protests amid antisemitism probe

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Anti-Israel protest at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley under congressional investigation for handling of antisemitism on campus

By HANNAH SARISOHN

UC Berkeley Campus - view from Sather Tower of Memorial Glade

Berkeley professor: I will not leave my office until the university addresses antisemitism

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pro-Israel students at the University of Berkeley demonstrate next to Pro-Palestinian students.

UC Berkeley is under federal investigation over the recent disruption of an Israeli speaker

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Brett Gelman appears on 'Eretz Nehederet.'

A starry night in Bethlehem: Eretz Nehederet at it again in latest skit

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF