US investigating Dallas school district, Sacramento State under Title VI The U.S. Department of Education is probing the California public school for alleged discrimination based on religion. July 16, 2024
California State University, Fresno, removes name of Nazi sympathizer from library Henry Madden’s moniker will also be removed from signage, websites and other campus locations in a process expected to take months. July 15, 2022
What Cal State LA’s new ethnic-studies dean may mean for Jewish students Julianne Malveaux’s anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist views are not unique—in fact, they are shared by many others in the discipline, including at her own institution. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin July 14, 2021
80 groups call on California governor to veto high school ethnic-studies bill An Arab-American studies lesson, the source of much of the blatant anti-Zionism and BDS promotion in the original draft, would be added back into the curriculum without the option of reviewing it before the public comment period ends. Sept. 11, 2020
Gov. Newsom signs California ethnic-studies bill into law “We are troubled that AB-1460 could lead to further exclusion of, and discrimination against, Jewish students on campus, exacerbating a pattern of isolation and ostracization of Jews that has become far too commonplace,” said AJC director of campus affairs Zev Hurwitz. Jackson Richman Aug. 18, 2020
Civil-rights, religious groups call on Gov. Newsom to veto California ethnic-studies bill “We are deeply concerned that without adequate safeguards, these courses could become vehicles for one-sided political advocacy and activism that will both subvert the academic mission of the university, and incite bigotry and harm against some CSU students,” they wrote. Aug. 14, 2020
Groups call on Cal State to act against professor spreading anti-Semitism on Facebook They said that a university-related academic program should not be allowed to use its departmental logo and name “to disseminate politically motivated and hate-filled messages.” Sept. 4, 2019
Eighty groups urge Cal State to reprimand anti-Israel professor for ‘hateful’ Facebook posts San Francisco State professor Rabab Abdulhadi has an anti-Israel history that includes calling the presence of pro-Israel students on campus a “declaration of war” against Arabs and Muslims. July 11, 2019