A professor at Berkeley has moved into his office full time to protest what he calls the administration's 'inability to make difficult and important decisions' regarding antisemitism.
A Berkeley professor has moved into his office for a 'sit-in' after accusing the Northern California school of an 'inability to make difficult and important decisions' regarding antisemitism on campus, according to reports. Professor Ron Hassner, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the school, brought a sleeping bag into his office Thursday after writing a letter to UC Chancellor Carol Christ and Provost Benjamin Hermalin.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WALK OUT IN PROTEST AFTER JEWISH STUDENT WAS CALLED NAMES, ATTACKED 'I will also leave a light on in my office window at all times, so that all students walking by on Bancroft Ave. can see that at least one faculty member is sleeping as badly at night as they are.' Berkeley and other campuses have been the targets of antisemitic attacks since Hamas launched an unprovoked attack on Israel in October, beginning the war.
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