Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine

Safety concerns have escalated after two weeks of increasing student activity around the Israel-Hamas war, with heightened occurrences of antisemitism and Islamophobia during recent demonstrations on campus.

In 2022, UC Berkeley received almost 3,000 information and record requests through the California Public Records Act, or CPRA. On April 26, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit alleging that campus had failed to fulfill its legal responsibilities to make its records “promptly available” for public review.

“Apartheid week” was held this week, hosted by student groups Bears for Palestine and Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine with the goal of covering “the origins of Israeli apartheid and how it affects Palestinians today.”

After more than two months of student and community action, the controversy over the bylaw adopted by Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, or LSJP, and nine other law student organizations has escalated.

Jewish people must be safe in every country we live in. No religious or ethnic group — not Jewish people in Israel, not Hindus in India, or Muslims in Saudi Arabia or Christians in the United States — has a right to a state of their own, with everyone else relegated to second-class status.

Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine announced Aug. 21 that nine student affinity groups agreed not to lend platforms to Zionists speakers.