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Meanwhile , Am not hearing about a Pro Jewish defense arm of Israel , operating in the USA that behaves as if they were a seperate concieved police dept . Which operated indiscriminately and was told operated with impunity , i have been told about by Some Jewish believers,I have had the opportunity to meet ..with violent anti arab behaviours supposably .?
in this country called the "Jewish Defense League" JDL as "support" of some sort for Jewish believers in this country. Which are suppose to be looking out for Jewish interests in the USA ???.

The streets of central London have become “a no-go zone for Jews every weekend” because of massive weekly anti-Israel demonstrations held by pro-Palestinian protesters, the United Kingdom’s counterterrorism commissioner has warned.

The protests have seen anti-Israel chants and a number of arrests. However, many in the British Jewish community believe that policing has not gone far enough.

In an opinion piece published Thursday by The Telegraph, Robin Simcox described the atmosphere in Britain since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, which has led to “skyrocketing” antisemitism in the UK.

The commissioner was also likely referencing the recent decision of Conservative Party MP Mike Freer — an outspoken supporter of Israel — not to seek reelection this year, noting “serious threats” to his safety.

Major demonstrations have taken place in London on most Saturdays since the war was sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre,

Demonstrations have also featured people glorifying Hamas, and antisemitic incidents and chants.

British Jews say they have been subject to verbal abuse by some pro-Palestinian supporters since the devastating October 7 terror attack carried out by Hamas in southern Israel and the subsequent war against the terror group.

In January, workers and shoppers at a family-owned kosher supermarket in Golders Green fended off a knife-wielding attacker who asked them, “Do you support Israel or Palestine?”

There have also been numerous reports of antisemitic attacks on people hanging posters of hostages kidnapped by Gaza terror groups, and while speaking Hebrew on the streets of London.

Simcox said “all these things and more have become normalized in the UK,” which he blamed on an emerging “permissive environment for radicalization” that he said must immediately be tackled.

He also charged that Iran is sponsoring British schools and mosques, and that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas back charities and television channels operating in the UK.

In the op-ed, Simcox applauded his government’s efforts to tackle extremism on British soil, but urged it to also target “the activities of those groups who propagate extremist narratives but who lurk just below the terrorism threshold,” mentioning the religious and educational institutions.

Responding to Simcox’s article, the head of UK Jewish security group CST told the BBC that he — along with other London Jews — avoids going into the center of the city for fear of violent incidents surrounding anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests in the area.

A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel UK protest group on Friday said one of its activists had “ruined” a portrait on display of Arthur Balfour, the British politician whose declaration helped lead to Israel’s creation.

Police confirmed officers had received an online report of criminal damage to a painting at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, in eastern England.

Palestine Action, which describes itself as a direct-action network of groups and individuals, said it was responsible for damaging the 1914 painting of the statesman.

It posted video footage online of the activist spraying the artwork with red paint from a canister and then slashing the surface of the framed painting multiple times.

The post accused Balfour of beginning “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.”

The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word letter in 1917 from Britain’s then-foreign secretary to Lionel Rothschild, a prominent British Zionist, supporting the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The document is credited with eventually helping to spur the creation of Israel in 1948 under a United Nations plan to partition British Mandate Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is attending the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam on Sunday amid pro-Palestinian protests demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

Protesters were chanting "Never again is now" and "Ceasefire now" at a square close to the museum, while holding Palestinian flags and signs that said "Jews against genocide" and "The grandchild of a holocaust survivor says: Stop Gaza Holocaust".

Human rights group Amnesty International put up detour signs around the museum to direct Herzog to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

Dutch Jewish anti-zionist organisation Erev Rave, which organised the protest with the Dutch Palestinian Community and Socialists International, said that while it honours the memory of Holocaust victims, it could not stand by while the war in Gaza continued.

Some of Herzog's remarks have been cited by South Africa in its International Court of Justice lawsuit against Israel. He has said that not only militants but "an entire nation" was responsible for the Oct. 7 attack and that Israel will fight "until we break their backbone".

Herzog has said his comments were misrepresented, and only part of what he said was cited in order to build a case against Israel in the ICJ, which after discussing told Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Herzog, before becoming president, which is a largely ceremonial role, used to head Israel's Labor party, which historically has been a advocate for making peace with Palestinians.
The museum told media that it had invited Herzog before the Hamas attack and Israel's subsequent offensive in Gaza.

It said in a statement it recognised that Herzog's attendance raised questions but added that he represented the homeland of Dutch Holocaust survivors who emigrated to Israel.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander is set to meet Herzog on Sunday.

Around 30 anti-Israel protesters briefly disrupted the opening of a solo exhibition dedicated to Israeli artist Michal Rovner’s ongoing series, “Pragim,” at the global headquarters of blue chip art gallery Pace on March 7 before being escorted outside by gallery staff.

The incident follows acts of vandalism surrounding Pace’s promotion of Rovner. About a month prior, on the night between Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January 27, the gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood was defaced, tagged with graffiti and plastered with anti-Israel posters.

“We charge Pace Gallery and Zionist Michal Rovner with: genocide epistemicide plundering looting incitement dehumanization historical revisionism,” read one of the posters pasted onto 540 West 25th Street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. “Intifada” and “Free Gaza” were also sprayed onto the building’s facade alongside spatters of red paint resembling blood.

“The vandalism was extensive enough to necessitate the gallery’s closure,” Pace announced in a statement on January 27. “We are a gallery that consists of a community of artists and employees, many of whom are actively engaged in socio-political issues and attuned to global events. With this diversity comes divergent viewpoints. In cases of disagreement, we remain committed to supporting meaningful civil discourse.”

“Pragim” is now on view at Pace through April 18.

The vandalism, carried out anonymously, was in response to Pace’s January 15 Instagram post about a Rovner video installation in Times Square titled “Signaling” (2023). Screenshots of comments to this Instagram post were pasted onto the gallery, which has represented Rovner for the past 20 years.

“Signaling” was first shown in December on the campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, where Rovner earned her degree, and was then screened simultaneously in Times Square and on the facade of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during the weekend of January 12.

The exhibit marked 100 days of captivity for the 134 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza, not all of whom are presumed to be alive. They were kidnapped during the October 7 atrocities when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed the border with Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 253 more, most of them civilians, amid horrific brutalities including rape, torture and mutilation.

In “Signaling,” rows of abstracted human silhouettes — a signature of Rovner’s work — wave their hands and move their bodies as red lights flicker from within them.

“These hand movements are a universal code for a call for help, a signal of distress. ‘Pay attention! I’m here, see me, don’t forget me,’” said Rovner of the work. “The color red is related to body heat, and its movement is like accelerated breathing, a beating pulse. It’s a color of urgency, danger, red lights that come on in emergency situations, alarm signals.”

The vandalism at Pace joined an ongoing wave of similar incidents at New York art galleries and institutions that began in December.

On December 6, Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery — owned by Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy and Amalia Dayan, the granddaughter of former Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan — was vandalized after their written response to an open letter published in Artforum on October 19 that called for an end to “institutional silence around the ongoing humanitarian crisis,” without any mention of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. The gallery was plastered with a fake apology for its own Artforum letter that read, among other things, “We were wrong.”

In mid-January, several galleries in Chinatown (including 56 Henry, Essex Street, Fierman, King’s Leap, Lyles and King, Maxwell Graham and No Gallery) were plastered with posters as they were about to open their first exhibitions of the year. Messages read, “Don’t Sell Art to Zionists,” “Zionism is Terrorism,” and “Blood on Your Hands.”

No one has claimed responsibility for any of these acts, but two days after the Chinatown incidents, photos of the plastered galleries were shared by the Instagram account of a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza, saying it was “coordinated by an autonomous group of Palestinian and POC [people of color] actionists.” The same account issued a celebratory post on January 28 that “actionists shut down Pace gallery.”

New York museums have been targeted as well, including Neue Galerie (founded by Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress) and the Dia Art Foundation. On February 10, the Museum of Modern Art closed after between 500 and 800 protestors took over the atrium and protested the alleged investment of museum trustees in Israeli military technology. Two days later, an artist talk at the Jewish Museum between Israeli painter Zoya Cherkassky and museum director James S. Snyder, about the artist’s series and exhibition titled “7 October 2023,” was disrupted by protesters.

Jewish students of the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter had to flee, fearing for their safety after their Israeli flag was splashed with red juice and their flyers ripped up by a crowd of dozens while they sat at an information stall on Wednesday, one of the students told The Jerusalem Post.
Third-year International Relations student Rojin-Sena Cantay was at a table on behalf of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) UK with six other students when a large crowd began to gather just after noon. She said that the booth had been approved by the university.

“It was a very violent and abusive environment; we weren’t protected at all,” said Cantay.

A heated debate ensued among the students about Palestinian rights, the legitimacy of the IDF’s operations in the Israel-Hamas War, and the right of Jews to have a state in the Levant.
'Jewish students are Israeli agents'

Cantay alleged that members of the crowd had said that the students were Israeli agents because of the CAMERA on Campus pamphlets. They also reportedly said that “Jews are the reason the Middle East is messed up” and “Jews don’t belong to Israel, they belong to Europe.”
“The students were questioning and picking apart our families, demanding to know where their parents and grandparents were from,” said Cantay, “to delegitimize us as being Jews and our connection to Israel.”

One woman grew irate over remarks about the treatment of LGBTQ+ people in the Muslim world and that the crowd was being intimidating. She accused the Jewish students of growing close to making Islamophobic comments.

Do you know how violent it is for you guys to sit here with that flag?” asked one student.

CAMERA UK said in a statement that the students had to flee the campus in taxis provided by the university out of concern for their physical safety.

The University of Exeter's response
A spokesperson for the University of Exeter told the Post on Friday, "University security was present throughout, and members of the police, who were present at the university as part of a separate meeting, visited the stall before the incident occurred.”

Cantay said they “won’t be returning to campus for a very long time, because we don’t feel protected, we feel unsafe, they have our pictures, the crowds were huge, and if security couldn’t protect us when they were right next to us, how are they going to ensure that they’re going to protect us when they’re not next to us?”

Sm guessing the sense of timing of opening the above Dutch Holocaust museum is massively inapropriate at this point in history...doesnt the Dutch King realize the animosity ,he is creating against the Judaic community in wrstern europe
by allowing this at this time...Hate say it but unless this guy is very old as a king .. that perhaps this kind of political faux pas, might help destroy his reputation ..and even the fellow opening this museum, at this time ?? possibly should have been deported from the Netherlands ! give me a break , if I "were" a anti semite,, this would fuel the fires of hatred . ..And we obviously are Not in short supply of Hatred.
So we have a king that has no regard for peoples public impression that he might make ?
Unless there are Billions of Dollars in investment money. NOT MILLIONS, Wouldnt his own subjects consider dethroning him. for making a rather bad decision at this time .. And so where is the Armenian holocaust museum or a Palestinian museum in the Netherlands?. Gotta wonder is this info. isnt just a fabrication?. what kind of monarch , allow a holocaust museum ,,right now .in this political climate ..it just sounds wrong.to me.

AS i had written above : Maybe harsh the Netherlands,giving only creedence to the Holocaust ..And i get the Netherlands , may have had a large density of the Jewish population , but NOT every Jew is AN Israeli Judaic person.
And the concept that all Jews endured the Holocaust, ( Given an Entire Generation of Israelis have changed since).
No news about Rwandan Genocide or the other ones . Time marches on, if the wound of the past are not allowed to heal , under softer quieter terms .Than they might remain a cultural Wound that it might be inappropriate to re-open .
" Let us not forget the past,less we might repeat it." Well here is Israel repeating it themselves.
[[The main gist of my Post was the concept of being ignorant of a obvious social/ political climate ]] and being in a higher political position. Why would you antagonize a situation , unless you wanted extra trouble." Timing"???
At least delay opening until some kind of Peace can be brokered.

Even the Average person can get alittle tired of someone playing the victim card over and over .,Even Eva Kor
( one of two twins that survived , Experimentation under Mengele in the concentration camps,regardless death of her twin) Might be a good person to research for those justifying Israels behaviours.
gave time a chance to heal her issues,and wanted to move on . She might have been a good political leader in some alternate reality.

As anti-Israel protesters tried to block people from entering a Monday night screening of "Nova," a documentary about the October 7 Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival that killed hundreds, a Jewish attendee was attacked. Chicago police are now investigating.

Using megaphones, wearing masks and carrying posters, dozens of anti-Israel protesters blocked the entry to Logan Theatre Monday night for the presentation hosted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The protest also spilled over inside the lobby

The protesters yelled "shame on you" to people attending a Jewish-sponsored event screening a documentary about the Hamas massacre of more than 300 people at the Nova Music Festival in Israel on October 7, 2023.

The man, who is in his late 50s, said one protester tried to yank the flag from his hand. The next thing he knew, he was being attacked by several protesters.

"A group of them was swinging me around and threw me into a parked car," the victim said. "I was completely surrounded by maybe six or seven that started punching me in the head."

Fortunately he was not seriously injured, but the attack has left him shocked and worried for the future of his Jewish children

At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech.

Wearing a hat with the logo of the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League (GDL), the man — who claimed to be a local resident — held up what he said was an “ADL toolkit that was sent to city councils across this nation.”

It was a line that simultaneously alluded to pro-Palestinian rhetoric about Jewish and pro-Israel groups working in tandem with council members to shut down calls for ceasefires in the Israel-Hamas war. It also hearkened to much older antisemitic thinking about Jews controlling governments and institutions.

He was swiftly cut off from speaking by the city’s progressive Jewish mayor, Daniel Biss, and both his hat and handout were blurred in video of the February 22 meeting posted online. But he was not the only white supremacist who spoke that night. Others made antisemitic remarks via Zoom as part of a coordinated campaign, some going after Biss directly.

The events of that evening prompted Biss and the council to consider new rules that would limit who could speak at such meetings in the future. At a follow-up meeting days later, the mayor called the public comment period “truly horrifying.”

While much public attention has been devoted to the reported rise of antisemitism in pro-Palestinian and progressive spaces during the past five months, researchers and analysts say those who care about anti-Jewish bigotry need to keep their eyes on the far right, too.

“When the war first started we saw an immediate reaction from white supremacist leaders,” Carla Hill, senior director of investigative research for the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told JTA. Hill said the common refrain was one of “applauding Hamas and even celebrating the deaths of Jews at the hands of Hamas.”

Researchers who track extremist activity online told JTA that violent threats specifically directed at Jews, on unmoderated social networks popular with white supremacists like 4Chan, Telegram and Odysee, shot up after the Hamas massacre and have remained high ever since.

“It literally is a new normal. There’s just far more violent antisemitism on these platforms than we’ve ever seen before,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

Beirich’s research tracks the movements of extremist groups, including online violent threats directed at marginalized communities, and works closely with the ADL to monitor antisemitism. She said there was a 500% spike in antisemitic threats in the 24-hour period after October 7; by November, that volume was still higher than pre-October 7 levels. Threats of violent antisemitism remain high on these platforms today, she said.

In addition, the ADL says, white supremacist activity in physical locations, including city council meetings and rallies, has quickly adapted to incorporate pro-Palestinian rhetoric. The Goyim Defense League has distributed “Free Palestine” flyers at rallies in Pittsburgh and other locations. The fliers aim to attract a broader audience by omitting any obviously antisemitic language and directing attendees to the neo-Nazi group’s website.

“They’re definitely seizing an opportunity. That’s what extremists do,” Hill said. “They’ll use anything like that to get their foot into a conversation.”

The GDL, whose members appeared in Evanston, has been active for the past few years. Prior to October 7, their members frequently distributed antisemitic flyers throughout various communities and hung banners to capitalize on antisemitic comments in the media by the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. “Active clubs,” neo-Nazi groups that also stage public demonstrations, were forming prior to October 7, but also have been on the rise since, with recent demonstrations in Ohio and Tennessee.

Hill said the groups’ public comments at city councils will often strategically begin with pro-Palestinian talking points, taking advantage of a growing movement to push local governments to adapt ceasefire resolutions, before veering into explicit antisemitism.

Despite media reports suggesting that such tactics have infiltrated the pro-Palestinian movement on a widespread scale, Hill said she has not been able to determine any evidence to that effect. But she emphasized that white supremacists also hate Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians: “Those guys hate any people of color,” she said.

A white supremacist demonstration outside a synagogue in Missoula, Montana, weeks after October 7, was quickly followed by a clash with nearby pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Yet GDL leader Jon Minadeo Jr. has emphasized in his communications to followers that, while the group opposes all minority groups, getting rid of Jews is its first priority.

The Jewish pro-Palestinian group IfNotNow — which is harshly critical of Israel and has accused it of genocide in Gaza since the days immediately following Hamas’ October 7 invasion — cautioned other activists not to engage with far-right advocacy for Palestinians.

The uptick in right-wing antisemitism is occurring as the mainstream Jewish community has voiced particular concern about a rise in antisemitism among the pro-Palestinian left. A study published last week by the ADL’s Center for Antisemitism Research seemed to bear this out, finding a correlation between antisemitic attitudes and certain pro-Palestinian beliefs like the idea that Israeli products should be boycotted and that “Israeli operatives are secretly manipulating US national policy.” It also reported that millennials are likelier to embrace antisemitic tropes than older generations.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has also recently pushed the idea that left-wing anti-Zionism is just as dangerous for Jews as right-wing antisemitism, and he has repeatedly condemned IfNotNow and its frequent partner Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group.

But Beirich said the far right still represents the much bigger threat to Jewish safety. Even in light of recent reported incidents of left-wing protesters violently targeting Jewish and pro-Israel people, she said the substantial majority of violent antisemitic attacks have originated from the right. She added that the possibility of a second Trump presidency — which gained likelihood this week, as he effectively clinched the Republican nominating contest — could exacerbate that threat.

I do think a second Trump term, if it happens to occur, is going to further animate these bad actors on the far right, just like the first one did,” Beirich said.

But while there is broad recognition of the need to address far-right antisemitic activity, Biss told JTA that there is a limit to how much city councils like his can restrict the right to public comment.

“The folks who participated in public comment on Thursday, they were kooks, they were provocateurs and trolls,” he continued. “But they were also vectors for the most damaging virus that we have experienced as a people.’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday criticized Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, calling for new elections in a speech on the Senate floor on the Israel-Hamas war.

“As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me: The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. The world has changed, radically, since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” said Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in America.

“Five months into this conflict, it is clear that Israelis need to take stock of the situation and ask: must we change course?” he continued. “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.”

Schumer noted in his speech that he is the first Jewish Senate majority leader. The New York Democrat condemned the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7 in his remarks and said he is “working in every way I can to support the Biden administration as negotiations continue to free every last one of the hostages.”

“October 7 and the shameless response to support that terrorist attack by some in America and around the globe have awakened the deepest fears of the Jewish people — that our annihilation remains a possibility,” Schumer said.

Schumer also said his “heart also breaks at the loss of so many civilian lives in Gaza.”

“I am anguished that the Israeli war campaign has killed so many innocent Palestinians,” he continued. “I know that my fellow Jewish Americans feel this same anguish when they see the images of dead and starving children and destroyed homes.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) call for new elections in Israel, calling the plea “highly inappropriate” and “wrong.”

“We want to speak very clearly and concisely to say that this is not only highly inappropriate, it’s just plain wrong for an American leader to play such a divisive role in Israeli politics while our closest ally in the region is in an existential battle for its very survival,” Johnson said at a press conference alongside other House GOP leaders.

“We need to be standing with Israel. We need to give our friends and allies our full support. We have to stand with and support them right now. But what you’re seeing from the White House and clearly from the Senate Democrats, is really exactly the opposite,” he added.

Dozens of artists and bands have left the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, in protest of the U.S. Army's sponsorship, claiming that it has supplied weapons "supporting their violent oppression of the Palestinian people."

The protest began in February when the organization Austin for Palestine Coalition called for a protest and boycott of SXSW based on its ties to the U.S. military and weapons manufacturing companies that have, the group claimed, supplied weapons to the Israeli military.

"SXSW must disinvite Raytheon (RTX), its subsidiary Collins Aerospace, and BAE Systems to the conference and festivals in the city of Austin," an Instagram post from the activist group read. "Raytheon, Collins Aerospace, and BAE Systems have direct ties to the arming of Israel, supporting their violent oppression of the Palestinian people. Raytheon manufactures missiles, bombs, and other weapon systems for the Israeli military to use against Palestinians."

Since then, several bands and performers pulled their scheduled appearances in an effort to support Palestinians.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott fired back against the bands and performers, telling them, "Don’t come back."

Jewish students at UC Berkeley were able to successfully march and rally on campus Monday just two weeks after violence interrupted a previous gathering. University officials also forced supporters of Palestinian justice to take down tape across Sather Gate.

Jewish students at Cal along with supporters from the community gathered in front of Zellerbach Hall, many of them dressed in white.

"All we're asking of the administration is that they enforce their own policies and make sure that Jewish students can walk through the gates to campus every day and feel welcome and have equal rights to free speech," said Charlotte Aaron, a UC Berkeley Jewish student organizer. "The gate is still blocked in violation of school policy."

For weeks, Justice for Palestine supporters have blocked the middle section of Sather Gate with yellow tape. This week the university took it down. And instead, a massive banner was put up.

"We found an alternative that would not be taken down immediately," said an organizer with Graduate Students for Justice for Palestine who declined to give her name.

UC Berkeley did not remove it.

UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof explained why.

"The banner is up and it too represents a violation of time, place and manner rules, but we assessed that using law-enforcement to clear it would create turmoil," Mogulof said.

At noon, the Jewish students marched onto Sproul Plaza and instead of passing through Sather Gate and past the banner, they avoided a confrontation by literally fording the creek to get to the other side on a foot path.

The crowd of 200 Jewish supporters ended up in front of California Hall where faculty members offered their support, commenting on the Feb. 26 disturbance that forced Jewish students to move off campus.

Sophie Hahn, Berkeley city councilmember said, "When we see the kind of despicable violence that we saw here on campus just a few days ago, it is totally in completely unacceptable and we are here to stand with you and to work with the university to make sure that never happens again."

Hannah Schlater, a UC Berkeley Jewish student organizer said, "The administration's continued complacency only emboldens those who want to hurt Jews."

Meanwhile, UC Berkeley Professor Ron Hassner is staging a sleep-in protest at his office, even teaching all classes on Zoom.

After the peaceful rally, a woman who appeared unaffiliated with the march tore through the paper banner at Sather Gate.

UC Berkeley is currently on a US Department of Education list of campuses under investigation for discrimination.