Fall Out From Antisemitism At NYU And UC-Berkeley Law Schools

New York Law Journal, 60% of 1,176 NYU Law Students Vote to Oust Ryna Workman From Student Bar:

Ryna Workman has officially been ousted from their position as president of the Student Bar Association at New York University School of Law amid controversy over comments made about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A voting link was sent to 2,070 students and 1,176 votes were received with 707 students (60%) voting that Workman should not remain in office, according to an X (formerly Twitter) post showing an image of an email sent from Student Affairs. ...

On Oct. 10, Workman posted an emailed message, saying that Israel’s “regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary,” in Workman’s capacity as NYU Law SBA president.

Along with being ousted from the SBA, Winston & Strawn rescinded its job offer to Workman, who had previously worked for the firm as a summer associate.

• Forward, NYU Law Students Remove Bar Association President Who Blamed Israel For Hamas Attack
• The Messenger, NYU Law Student Body Ousts Leader Who Blamed Israel for Hamas Terror
• National Review, NYU Law Students Vote to Oust Bar Association President Who Blamed Israel for Hamas Attack, Tore Down Hostage Posters

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• New York Times, At NYU Law And Harvard, Fallout From Israel-Hamas Student Comments Continues (Oct. 13, 2023)
• New York Times, Davis Polk and Winston & Strawn Withdraw Job Offers to Columbia, Harvard, and NYU Law Students Due to Antisemitic Comments About Israel-Hamas (Oct. 18, 2023)

Bloomberg Law, UC Berkeley, Law School Sued Over ‘Unchecked’ Antisemitism:

Two Jewish groups sued the University of California at Berkeley and its law school over the “longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism” they say has escalated since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

UC Berkeley and the law school have “failed to confront, much less combat, the antisemitic environment their inaction has fostered,” according to the complaint. It was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by the Louis D. Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education, or JAFE.

At the law school, at least 23 student organizations have enacted policies to “discriminate against and exclude Jewish students, faculty and scholars,” the groups said. They claim the university’s leaders have flouted UC rules and US law and “enabled the normalization of anti-Jewish hatred on campus.”

• Law360, Group Says Berkeley Law Allows 'Unchecked' Antisemitism
• New York Daily News, Jewish Advocacy Group Files Lawsuit Over Alleged Antisemitism at UC Berkeley
• New York Post, U. California-Berkeley Sued by Students Over ‘Unchecked’ Antisemitism
• Politico, Jewish Groups Sue University of California Over ‘Unchecked’ Antisemitism
• The Recorder, New Lawsuit Claims UC and UC Berkeley Law Have Allowed Antisemitism to Spread 'Unchecked'
• Reuters, Jewish Groups Sue UC Berkeley Over 'Unchecked' Antisemitism
• Washington Free Beacon, UC Berkeley Faces Lawsuit For 'Longstanding, Unchecked Spread of Anti-Semitism'

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• UC-Berkeley Law Faculty Statement In Support Of Jewish Students (Oct. 11, 2022)
• Steven Lubet (Northwestern),  A Free-Speech Scandal at Berkeley Law (Oct. 17, 2022)
• Chronicle of Higher Education Debate, Is UC-Berkeley Law School Discriminating Against Jews? (Oct. 28, 2022)
• San Francisco Chronicle, Complaint Alleges ‘Profound And Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ At UC-Berkeley Law School (Dec. 14, 2022)
• New York Times, At UC-Berkeley Law, A Debate Over Zionism, Free Speech, And Campus Ideals (Dec. 22, 2022)
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Steven Davidoff Solomon (UC-Berkeley)), Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Berkeley Law Students (Oct. 16, 2023)
• Los Angeles Times Op-Ed (Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley)), Nothing Has Prepared Me For The Antisemitism I See On College Campuses Now (Oct. 31, 2023)