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UC Berkeley Gives Names of Students and Faculty to Government for Antisem Probe

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Judith Butler, a world-renown scholar who is also Jewish, is included in list of those accused of antisemitism.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-09-13/ty-article/.premi...

We all know it’s not actually for antisemitism.

It would seem that Berkeley didn't come up with these names on their own, they were a part of complaints that the government demanded info on?

https://archive.ph/QasXD

The same institution that pretends to have "such a strong protest culture".

The suppression of free speech is quite funny to see, from those who claim to be such proponents of it. Of course, it's not free speech when it bothers my political sensibilities, it's only free speech when I'm the one being censored, not when I do the censoring.

Einstein and Hannah Arendt would also be on this list. They were staunch anti-fascists

isn’t it intolerable to be controlled by that awful, murderous, black hole of country? How do you put up with this?

Sad to see such a great and distinguished institution 'bend the knee' to the Pumpkin Spice Palpatine in this manner.

UC Berkeley used to have such fight in it.

The alternative seems to be that the Trump admin directs the State Dept to revoke all student visas from UC Berkeley, and they lose half their student body (and a good number of faculty) overnight.

What, you think they’re going to stop here? They’re going to keep pushing and pushing and pushing — then revoke the visas anyway out of spite.

Don’t give an inch and litigate. That is the only path forward.

In other words: fascism will never be appeased.

Which is, of course, flat out unacceptable on many levels.

However; it seems to me some of these institutions could band together and pool resources both legal, financial, and otherwise to give something of a stronger defense than one alone.

Rock and a hard place certainly.

But there has to be something that can be done, albeit even in the United States broken systems of law, both constitutional and otherwise, to fight off this assault. Anything other than bending the knee and enabling further assaults on higher-education and/or the US democracy.

It could be done, but I guess many these institutions think it's futile, especially given Supreme Court's recent stances. Harvard stands out and have secured a temporary win, but who knows what happens in 3 months. I am not optimistic.

I stopped believing in constitution for a while now. If the interpretation of it depends on who sits on the bench, it means it's nothing more than a piece of paper with some words on it.

Harvard’s arrogance and insularity will not prevail in the long term.

At some point, they will fall.

They started dying quite some time ago, at least as early as when they hired John Yoo.

All major universities public and private are heavily dependent on federal dollars in numerous ways.

The Fed has tremendous financial and regulatory power over any institution of any size.

Large corporations have been bending the knee for the same reasons. I highly doubt Tim Cook is a huge Trump fan but he was right there to kiss ass on day one. That’s because Trump could, with the stroke of a pen, decimate Apple’s business by destroying its global supply chain.

Actual conservatives and actual libertarians were warning about growing Federal power for decades and decades and they had a point. Nobody listened of course.

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