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It’s UCLA’s Turn in the Hot Seat: Chancellor to Appear before Congress Thursday AM

May 22, 2024 3:15 pmMay 22, 2024 3:15 pm

The past couple of months have been a rather trying time for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. And it won’t get any better Thursday. Block has been called to testify by the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce...

UC Berkeley Reaches Agreement With Protestors To Reexamine Israel Investments In Exchange For Removing Encampment

May 16, 2024 2:55 amMay 16, 2024 2:56 am

The Pro-Palestinian encampment came down on the UC Berkeley campus on Wednesday following the University and protestors coming to an agreement. Protestors agreed to remove the encampment on campus while the University promised to rigorously examine the school’s investment in...

UC Berkeley Cancels Fall U.S. Senate Debate Over Protest, Safety Concerns

May 11, 2024 2:55 amMay 11, 2024 2:56 am

The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) announced on Friday that they have withdrawn their offer to host a U.S. Senate debate between Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former baseball player Steve Garvey (R) this fall, citing safety concerns...

Protestors Clash, Arrests Break Out On University Campuses in California

April 29, 2024 1:09 pmApril 30, 2024 12:21 pm

Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israel protests continued at several university campuses across California during the weekend, culminating in numerous arrests at USC, with a major fight breaking out at UCLA. Protests have been taking place at many university campuses nationwide for two...

Winning by Losing – the Hamas Plan All Along?

April 8, 2024 11:56 amApril 8, 2024 11:57 am

It simply didn’t make sense, Hamas attacking Israel last October 7th. There was no hope Hamas could win militarily and there was the certainty of an appropriately overwhelming Israeli response. Gaza – and the people who live there – would...

Gov. Newsom Calls for Gaza Cease-Fire in letter to California’s Palestinian, Arab, Muslim Community

March 25, 2024 4:38 amMarch 25, 2024 10:25 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote a letter to California’s Muslim, Palestinian American, and Arab American communities Thursday, expressing how it “pains” him “so deeply to see the ways your communities are suffering, bearing the weight of lost family and friends...

UC Berkeley Apologizes to Liberal Pro-Israel Oakland City Councilman

December 31, 2023 10:30 amDecember 31, 2023 2:13 pm

The University of California at Berkeley has apologized to a liberal Oakland City Councilman whose appearance at the school was canceled when woke students complained to their professor that he is pro-Israel. The apology from the University is a welcome...