(The Center Square) – The University of California Berkeley is expanding its antisemitism education in the 2024-25 school year as well as banning encampments and prohibiting masking to conceal one’s identity.
Former Chancellor Carol Christ announced “new campus programs to provide antisemitism education to larger numbers of students, staff, and faculty,” in a letter to the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Student Life and Campus Climate.
“The ensuing rise in reports of antisemitic expression, including on our own campus, is deeply disturbing,” Christ wrote.
The Center Square reached out to Christ for comment twice and received no response.
The major components of Berkeley’s antisemitism education expansion will take place in “three main areas,” program director of Berkeley’s Antisemitism Education Initiative Gregg Drinkwater told The Center
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