Yesterday the University of California at Berkeley
rescinded its
suspension of a course,
Ethnic Studies 198: Palestine: A Colonial Settler Analysis—a vehemently anti-Israel, one-credit, once-a-week, student-led
course.
The entire purpose of the course appears to be political advocacy and organizing, in violation of
university policy for an academic class.
California Regents Policy 2301 provides:
“The Regents…are responsible to ensure that public confidence in the University is justified. And they are responsible to see that the University remain aloof from politics and never function as an instrument for the advance of partisan interest. Misuse of the classroom by, for example, allowing it to be used for political indoctrination…constitutes misuse of the University as an institution”.
The course was so obviously political advocacy that the course poster [see Featured Image and below] used the
completely discredited BDS propaganda map which was so false and misleading that
MNSBC apologized for once using it during a news segment.