SF Politics Berkeley Schools Superintendent Denies Widespread Antisemitism Claims, But Says 'Our Babies Sometimes Say Harmful Things' Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, was one of three leaders from liberal public school districts called to testify before a congressional committee today.
SF News Berkeley Schools Superintendent Called to Testify Before Congressional Committee Over Antisemitism Claims Much like the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and Columbia have in recent months, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District is being called to testify before a Republican-led House committee.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
SF News Guy In ‘White Power’ T-Shirt With Swastika Tries to Hijack Walnut Creek City Council Meeting With Antisemitic Rant Walnut Creek is one of many cities that ended remote public comment because of racist Zoombombs, so one of the racist Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of blaming it all on Jewish people.
SF News Alt-Right Wackadoodles Now Impersonating the NorCal Journalists Who Exposed Their ‘Zoom-Bombing’ of City Meetings Two Northern California journalists got to the bottom of who was disrupting various city hall meetings with anti-semitic messages in Berkeley and Marin County. The neo-Nazis then started impersonating those journalists in the same meetings, and others across the country.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Continues Apology Tour By Going to Auschwitz With Ben Shapiro Billionaire multi-CEO Elon Musk took a break from running his companies to take a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp Monday and attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA) in Krakow.
SF News Both Oakland and SF School Districts Face Federal Investigations, Allegedly Over Antisemitism While none of the reasons for the investigation have been made public, the U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations after receiving allegations of antisemitism in both the San Francisco and Oakland unified school districts.
Arts & Entertainment Alex Edelman's 'Just For Us,' a One-Man Show About a Jew Attending a Nazi Cabal, Is a Dark Laugh Riot at Berkeley Rep "A Jewish Millennial walks in to a semi-secret meeting of white supremacists in Queens" sounds like the setup to a joke, and it basically is the setup for an hour and a half of non-stop jokes and funny stories in Alex Edelman's manic but charming 'Just for Us.'
Business & Tech Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Has Friendly Live Chat With Elon Musk About AI, Antisemitism, and Judicial Power Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew overnight to San Francisco to have a public conversation with Elon Musk Monday morning about multiple subjects, including AI, antisemitism on Twitter/X, and the power of courts in a functioning democracy.
SF News Hayward Teacher Placed On Leave Over Allegedly Giving ‘A Master Class in Antisemitism' An English teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School may have gone a little too Kanye West, adding to the curriculum a pamphlet that accuses Jewish people of a “Well-outlined Plan for World Dictatorship.”
SF News Rabbis Call For Hate Crime Charges In Last Week’s SF Synagogue Shooting 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin is accused of firing shots in an Outer Richmond synagogue last week — and while the shots were blanks, his disturbing social media posts have synagogue leaders calling for hate crime charges.
SF News Celebrate L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday By Protesting Church of Scientology This Saturday Yesterday, it seems, was L. Ron Hubbard's birthday. Hubbard, as most of you know, is the author of the wildly successful Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology, a religion in which
