UC Berkeley admitted to discriminating against an Israeli researcher, agreed to reverse course and invite her to teach on campus and will pay $60,000, in a settlement of her lawsuit alleging she was ousted over nationality, announced Wednesday.

Yael Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, sued the university for violating state anti-discrimination laws when UC Berkeley allegedly denied her a teaching opportunity after the department chair sent Nativ a WhatsApp message saying the situation on campus was too “hot” following student-led pro-Palestinian protests.

“I would be putting the dept and you in a terrible position if you taught here,” the chair of the theater, dance, and performance studies department, SanSan Kwan, messaged Nativ according to the suit. The Louis D. Brandeis Center

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