Jewish Groups’ Lawsuit Alleges University of California Has Let Campus Anti-Semitism Go Unchecked

A pair of Jewish advocacy organizations are suing the University of California and UC Berkeley in particular, alleging they’ve allowed anti-Semitism and the harassment of Jewish students to go virtually unchecked on their campuses. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and the related Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (JAFE). The Brandeis Center is a legal advocacy organization focused on anti-Semitism in K–12 and college and university campuses. The Brandeis Center also serves as the parent organization for JAFE. The 36-page federal complaint accuses University of California leaders of allowing numerous campus student organizations to discriminate against Jewish students by requiring their members to renounce Zionism and the state of Israel as a condition of participation....