ISRAELI SOCIOLOGIST DENIED REHIRE AT UC BEKELEY BECAUSE SHE IS JEWISH. SHE IS SUING.

By Bob Walsh

 

Dr. Yael Nativ is a sociologist and a dance researcher.  She taught at UC Berkeley in 2022.  She was denied rehire at Berkeley because her department chair asserted that her presence would be problematic and would "enrage" the pro-Hamas mob at Berkeley.  She had been specifically invited to re-apply.  Nativ, who is an Israeli, has sued Berkeley and the Board of Regents.  She is being represented by the Brandeis Center.  The case was filed in state court.

Her lawyer, Rebecca Harris, asserts that this is a straightforward case of discrimination and points out that the schools own internal investigation concluded that she had been discriminated against.  She has it in writing from the university vice-chancellor of Civil Rights for Whistleblowers and Clery Compliance.  

The school is claiming that her rehire is still under review.  It has been "under review" since November of last year at least.

I suspect this case is, or will be, featured prominently in the federal action against the U C system alleging pervasive anti-Semitism and intellectual cowardice.  (I just made that last one up.  It is, however, appropriate.)