In Nativ’s case, all appeared well with Berkeley until the Oct. 7 attacks turned campus into a hotbed of anti-Israel activity.
The University of California, Berkeley, rescinded a job offer to a visiting Israeli professor solely because of her national origin, according to a new lawsuit.
Though the professor, Dr. Yael Nativ, taught a course at the school prior to Oct. 7, Berkeley’s theater department chair said campus was too “hot” following Hamas’s terrorist massacre.
Berkeley hired Nativ, an Israeli dance researcher and sociologist, in January 2022 to teach a course on Intersectional Perspectives on Contemporary Dance in Israel at Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.