Ron E. Hassner is the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel studies at University of California, Berkeley and co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
Ron E. Hassner
By Ron E. Hassner
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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
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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
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