"UC Berkeley has provided 160 names of students, staff and faculty to the federal government, which has been conducting a probe into alleged antisemitism on college campuses nationwide. UC Berkeley provided the personal information of these students and staff at the direction of the University of California's Office of the President, according to The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's student paper. Affected students received an email on Sept. 4 notifying them that their names had been released."
"Among those accused of potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism is noted feminist theorist Judith Butler, who has previously said that their Jewish upbringing drove her to speak out against the state of Israel through Jewish Voice for Peace. Butler told the San Francisco Chronicle that UC's compliance has echoes of McCarthyism. Forwarding such names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students named to widespread surveillance."
UC Berkeley supplied 160 names of students, staff, and faculty to federal authorities in connection with a nationwide probe into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. The personal information was provided at the direction of the University of California's Office of the President. Affected students were notified by email on Sept. 4. An anonymous graduate student reported that targeted names appear to be Muslim and Arab individuals who expressed support for Palestine. Feminist theorist Judith Butler is among those linked to potential reports of antisemitism and criticized the compliance as echoing McCarthyism. The federal government has launched dozens of probes, including ten in California, while shuttering more than half of regional civil‑rights offices, and the administration has sought to withhold federal funding from UC Berkeley and other colleges after pro‑Palestinian campus protests.
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