Ethan B. Katz

Ethan B. Katz is associate professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, where he is the chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Student Life and Campus Climate and co-founder and co-director of the Berkeley Antisemitism Education Initiative.

By Ethan B. Katz

Opinion
We are faculty at UC Berkeley, and are grievously disappointed by some student organizations’ support of Hamas

There are more than 300 signatories on a faculty letter condemning the attacks on Israel

By Kenneth A. Bamberger, and Shafi Goldwasser, and Ron E. Hassner, and Carla Hesse, and Ethan B. Katz, and Daniela Kaufer, and Eran Rabani, and Michael Shapira, and Jonathan Wurtele Oct 18, 2023 | 2 min read
Opinion
UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them

Despite a decision by a small cohort to ban 'Zionist speakers,' Berkeley is not hostile to Jewish and Israeli students

By Ron E. Hassner and Ethan B. Katz Oct 3, 2022 | 4 min read
Opinion
Fake History, À La Française: Marine Le Pen Plays Fast And Loose With The Holocaust

On July 16-17, 1942, some 9,000 French police rounded up and arrested 13,000 French Jews, the majority of them women and children. Held briefly in inhumane conditions at the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium, these Jews would soon be deported East, most never to return. French police acted under the supervision not of the Nazis, but of…

By Ethan B. Katz Apr 25, 2017 | 3 min read
Opinion
Think France’s Jews and Muslims Are Natural Enemies? Think Again.

It was late at night in central Paris. A group of Jews were enjoying themselves in their popular meeting spot, the Gamin de Paris, a café in the longtime Jewish quarter of the Marais. At about 11 PM, between 50 and 100 thugs, many of them Muslims, showed up to make trouble. Carrying Billy clubs,…

By Ethan B. Katz Sep 21, 2015 | 3 min read

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Ethan B. Katz

By Ethan B. Katz

We are faculty at UC Berkeley, and are grievously disappointed by some student organizations’ support of Hamas

UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them

Fake History, À La Française: Marine Le Pen Plays Fast And Loose With The Holocaust

Think France’s Jews and Muslims Are Natural Enemies? Think Again.

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An idyllic Jewish village, full of life and hope, just hours before its utter annihilation

Pardoned Jan. 6 protester Jake Lang throws chocolate coins, Nazi salute during anti-AIPAC demonstration in DC

She helped rescue the Torahs from their burning synagogue. A year later, the congregation is thriving.

Ethan B. Katz

By Ethan B. Katz

We are faculty at UC Berkeley, and are grievously disappointed by some student organizations’ support of Hamas

UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them

Fake History, À La Française: Marine Le Pen Plays Fast And Loose With The Holocaust

Think France’s Jews and Muslims Are Natural Enemies? Think Again.

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He stormed the Capitol wearing a Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt 5 years ago. Where is he now?

Things are only going to get worse for Jews from here

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װי האָבן סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער געשריבן װעגן דעם חורבן?How did Soviet Yiddish authors write about the Holocaust?

An idyllic Jewish village, full of life and hope, just hours before its utter annihilation

Pardoned Jan. 6 protester Jake Lang throws chocolate coins, Nazi salute during anti-AIPAC demonstration in DC

She helped rescue the Torahs from their burning synagogue. A year later, the congregation is thriving.

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