The University of California, Berkeley, is facing a lawsuit alleging it violated state antidiscrimination laws when it rejected an Israeli professor’s teaching application because of her nationality.

The suit was filed on Wednesday in California Superior Court by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the law firm of Olivier and Schreiber PC on behalf of Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance researcher and sociologist who served as a visiting professor at the school in 2022.

After a successful semester teaching a course on intersectional perspectives on contemporary dance in Israel, Nativ was invited by professors of the school’s Jewish law and Israel studies center to apply as a visiting professor in the department of theater, dance and performance studies for the 2024-2025

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