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As the war continues to escalate between Israel and Hamas, the city of Richmond is weighing in on the international crisis. The City Council overnight Wednesday passed a resolution in support of the people of Palestine, according to the Jewish News of Northern California, a move the local Palestinian community is applauding. “I applaud the city of Richmond for taking this seriously. Personally, my friends have been attacked at UC Berkeley walking home for just for wearing a Kufiya,” said Luqman Elbakri of Berkeley. The resolution was to “affirm the city’s support and solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza,”...

Article's full title: "UC-Berkeley reopens investigation into campus assault on conservative activist days after announcing its end" Excerpt: University of California-Berkeley officials say that campus police have reopened an investigation into the assault on a conservative activist who was manning a recruitment table on campus. Earlier this week, officials said the investigation had ended and police were seeking a felony arrest warrant from the Alameda County District Attorney Office. * * * The Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick did not respond to a message from Fox News. She told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday: "The matter has...

A campus conservative was assaulted by a student at the University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday for protesting hate crime hoaxes. According to video taken of the incident, the student threatened to shoot the victim, who was tabling with Berkeley Turning Point USA, before knocking his phone out of his hand and punching him in the face.

Sixteen days into the spring semester and three months before the current furor over Ann Coulter, 150 or so masked outsiders swarmed onto the University of California, Berkeley, campus and turned a peaceful protest there into a riot.

In a statement, the Zionist Freedom Alliance said “we call on state officials, the President of the University of California, the Chancellor, the Dean of Students, faculty, and the student body to take a unified stand against the continued harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students on this campus" Arab students disrupted a pro-Israel event at the campus of the University of California at Berkeley Thursday night, unfurling a large Palestinian flag in front of a crowd of hundreds of supporters of Israel who were enjoying a pro-Israel hip-hop concert. The event was sponsored by the Zionist Freedom Alliance student group....

In his new book, Talking Right, linguist Geoff Nunberg examines the parlance of the American political right. Conservatives, Nunberg notes, have been remarkably effective at creating a language through which to convey their agenda. The subtitle of his book illustrates what he's getting at: "How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show." Nunberg, who teaches at the University of California-Berkeley, is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is also the author of Going Nucular and The Way We Talk Now....

SAN FRANCISCO - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said Tuesday.

The East Bay Express has a long story on the subject; here are two particularly striking excerpts: A milder but more instructive glimpse of the hatreds that inflame Cal was on display February 10, the day Daniel Pipes lectured at UC Berkeley's Pimentel Hall. Pipes runs a project called Campus Watch, which through its Web site, CampusWatch.org, monitors Middle Eastern Studies departments at American schools, including Cal. The site keeps dossiers on instructors it believes are biased against the United States, and Pipes writes a steady stream of articles with intentionally provocative headlines such as "When Osama Bin Laden Becomes...