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A week into the Israel-Hamas war, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "Don't Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students."
The escalating Israel-Hamas war has turned U.S. universities into battlegrounds over speech.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed by professor Steven Davidoff Solomon recommended against hiring students who 'support discriminatory bylaws or other acts and resolutions blaming Jews and Israelis for the Hamas massacre.'
The federal complaint accuses UC Berkeley of an 'act of discrimination against the Jewish community' and equates anti-Zionism, which challenges the state of Israel, with antisemitism.
When one student group sought to exclude certain speakers, an internal debate swirled into a huge online controversy.