The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is opposing the University of California, Berkeley’s effort to dismiss the Brandeis Center’s complaint accusing the public school of pervasive Jew-hatred.
“Amazingly, the UC Berkeley regents have the nerve to claim that they shouldn’t be held accountable because they haven’t had enough time to investigate the situation,” said Kenneth Marcus, the Brandeis Center’s founder and chair and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for civil rights.
“It’s now been more than half a year since their system president admitted that they have a problem, and yet they haven’t had enough time?” Marcus continued. “When the university makes this sort of argument to a court of law, their opposition brief is the least of what needs to be dismissed.”
Rachel Lerman, vice chair and senior counsel at the Brandeis Center, said, “The pervasive antisemitic climate on UC Berkeley’s campus has only intensified in the months since the Brandeis Center first filed a complaint in federal district court against the regents of the University of California.”
