University of California, Berkeley is facing a lawsuit claiming it denied Dr. Yael Nativ a teaching role for being Israeli.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Olivier & Schreiber filed a lawsuit against UC Berkeley for denying Nativ a job application due to her national origin.
“For a university to deny the invitation of a respected professor simply because of her national origin is not only distasteful, it’s illegal,” said Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman and CEO of the Brandeis Center and a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law.
“And if the campus administration doesn’t hold themselves up to the same accountability standards that they hold their students, what is stopping their students from acting on their own discriminatory beliefs?” said Marcus, a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for the Bush and Trump administrations. “The vicious and illegal targeting of Israeli faculty and researchers is, unfortunately a disturbing new trend we are seeing nationwide that must stop.”
Back in 2022, Nativ, an Israeli dance researcher and sociologist, was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. In reapplying for the 2024-2025 school year, according to the lawsuit, shortly after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Nativ was expressly told by the chair of the department that she was rejected because of the potential backlash of hiring an Israeli professor.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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