Ethan B. Katz is associate professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, where he is the chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Student Life and Campus Climate and co-founder and co-director of the Berkeley Antisemitism Education Initiative.
Ethan B. Katz
By Ethan B. Katz
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Opinion We are faculty at UC Berkeley, and are grievously disappointed by some student organizations’ support of Hamas
There are more than 300 signatories on a faculty letter condemning the attacks on Israel
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Opinion UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them
Despite a decision by a small cohort to ban 'Zionist speakers,' Berkeley is not hostile to Jewish and Israeli students
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Opinion Fake History, À La Française: Marine Le Pen Plays Fast And Loose With The Holocaust
On July 16-17, 1942, some 9,000 French police rounded up and arrested 13,000 French Jews, the majority of them women and children. Held briefly in inhumane conditions at the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium, these Jews would soon be deported East, most never to return. French police acted under the supervision not of the Nazis, but of…
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Opinion Think France’s Jews and Muslims Are Natural Enemies? Think Again.
It was late at night in central Paris. A group of Jews were enjoying themselves in their popular meeting spot, the Gamin de Paris, a café in the longtime Jewish quarter of the Marais. At about 11 PM, between 50 and 100 thugs, many of them Muslims, showed up to make trouble. Carrying Billy clubs,…
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