Two Jewish advocacy organizations suing the University of California, Berkeley, over a “longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism” have amended their complaint to include incidents from antiwar protests. The federal complaint, filed in the Northern District of California in November by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, was amended May 3.
” The lawsuit also accuses the university of tolerating an allegedly antisemitic campaign against its law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky. In March, after Chemerinsky, who is Jewish, invited graduating law students to a series of dinners at his home, a group opposing the war in Gaza posted a caricature of him to its Instagram account. Chemerinsky is depicted as holding a fork and knife with the words “No Dinner with Zionist Chem While Gaza Starves” encircling him.