From the LA Times: UC Berkeley on Thursday said it would revise campus nondiscrimination policies, prohibit student organization bylaws from banning Zionist speakers and pay $1 million in legal fees to settle a lawsuit by two Jewish groups over alleged antisemitic incidents following protests in response to the Hamas-Israel war in 2023. In addition, UC Berkeley said it would revamp an online nondiscrimination page to clarify that it considers an antisemitism definition promoted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance when evaluating discrimination complaints...
UC Berkeley has considered the IHRA definition since 2024, based on Department of Education guidelines. What is new is that the campus has agreed to refer to the definition on its Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination web page. The settlement is the latest among UC campuses that have closed out lawsuits and civil rights complaints stemming from contentious pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests that reached a crescendo in 2024 with pro-Palestinian encampments at all nine undergraduate campuses and a violent attack against pro-Palestinian activists at UCLA in April of that year... In a statement, UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the settlement built upon work already underway...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-19/uc-berkeley-settles-brandeis-center-antisemitism-lawsuit.
Note: The Daily Cal attributes the decision to settle to the Regents in a closed-door session last Wednesday. While such a sequence is reasonable to assume, since the session was closed-door, it is unclear how that information could be known with certainty. See:
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