A fight broke out on Berkeley’s campus Wednesday after one person grabbed an Israeli flag belonging to a counter-protester. An aggravated assault and attempted robbery of an Israeli flag occurred during an altercation at the Free Palestine Encampment just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, a UC Berkeley WarnMe email reported. An eyewitness told The Daily Californian […]
Last year there were a lot of article about progressive Jews who suddenly realized their allies on the left saw them as the enemy. I wrote about a couple of instances here and here. So this isn’t a new phenomenon but even months later it still has the potential to shock some people. Columbia University […]
Back in 2019, Berkeley, CA became the first city in the country to pass an ordinance banning natural gas in newly constructed buildings. That obviously meant no gas appliances in these new buildings. But before the ordinance even took effect the city was sued. There were twists and turns in the story but about a […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Ohlone people and others rejoiced Wednesday over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years, saying the move rights a historic wrong and restores the people who were first on land now called Berkeley, California, to their rightful place in history. The 2.2-acre (0.89-hectare) parking lot is the only […]
Her name is Elizabeth Hoover and she was apparently raised in the belief that she had Native ancestry on both her father and mother’s side of the family. But Hoover would eventually make her way to some of America’s top schools where she studied anthropology and did work on identifying Native Americans. During this time […]
Berkeley’s vaunted first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas pipes in new construction is no more — for now, at least. In April, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the law, which had gone into effect in 2020 but had been challenged by the California Restaurant Association, according to the […]
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