BerkeleySide reports on the Berkeley settlement with the Brandeis Center, quoting BIFI’s Chris Hoofnagle:
“Berkeley can say ‘We won because we didn’t adopt [the definition],’ but the Brandeis Center can say they won because the view of what is antisemitism will now be titrated through that document,” said Chris Hoofnagle, secretary of the Berkeley Initiative for Freedom of Inquiry, a faculty group.
While the lawsuit reflects genuine concerns about the freedom of Jewish students, Hoofnagle said, he worries about the “weaponization” of discrimination claims. “Faculty who have performed good faith research that is critical or that focuses on Israel could end up in a kind of laundry machine of complaints from people who merely disagree,” he said.