"UC Berkeley admitted to discriminating against an Israeli researcher, agreed to reverse course and invite her to teach on campus and will pay $60,000, in a settlement of her lawsuit alleging she was ousted over nationality, announced Wednesday. Yael Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, sued the university for violating state anti-discrimination laws when UC Berkeley allegedly denied her a teaching opportunity after the department chair sent Nativ a WhatsApp message saying the situation on campus was too hot following student-led pro-Palestinian protests."
"I would be putting the dept and you in a terrible position if you taught here, the chair of the theater, dance, and performance studies department, SanSan Kwan, messaged Nativ according to the suit. The Louis D. Brandeis Center, a non-profit legal organization that advocates for Jewish civil and human rights, filed the case on Nativ's behalf in August. In the settlement, UC Berkeley said an internal investigation found that discrimination had occurred, and the administration failed to address the issue before Nativ's lawsuit was filed."
"As part of the agreement, the university says it will enforce its anti-discrimination policy and respond promptly and equitably to reports of misconduct. Also, UC Berkeley's Chancellor Rich Lyons will apologize to Nativ, who has said she will donate a portion of the settlement to charity. The university will invite Nativ to teach the course she was blocked from teaching a dance course she had previously taught in 2022 as a visiting professor. She is owed the apology I will provide on behalf of our campus, Lyons said in a statement."
UC Berkeley admitted discriminating against Israeli researcher Yael Nativ and agreed to reverse its decision, invite her to teach on campus, and pay $60,000 as part of a settlement. Nativ sued after a department chair sent a WhatsApp message saying the situation on campus was too hot following student-led pro-Palestinian protests and declined to offer her a teaching opportunity. An internal investigation found discrimination occurred and that administrators failed to address the conduct before the lawsuit. The settlement requires enforcement of anti-discrimination policies, prompt equitable responses to misconduct reports, a formal apology from Chancellor Rich Lyons, and an invitation for Nativ to teach a previously held dance course.
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