A teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley is in hot water over the extra credit opportunity.
Students walk past Sather Gate on the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. and teaching assistant Victoria Huynh A teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley offered students an opportunity to earn extra credit for participating in pro-Palestine activities.in ethnic studies and aide in lecturer Harvey Dong’s “Asian American Communities and Race Relations” course, made the offer to students Tuesday via email,to the Jewish News of Northern California.
One option was to “attend the national student walkout tomorrow against settler-colonial occupation of Gaza,” and the other was to “watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representatives.”The message earned 2.3 million views on X as of Thursday morning and drew broad condemnation from commenters who tagged @UCBerkeley.
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