Posted on 08/20/22
| News Source: JNS
After a two-and-a-half year vacancy, San Francisco State University has hired a mandated Jewish student life coordinator.
The Lawfare Project released a statement on Wednesday noting the hire, which is required as part of a 2019 settlement agreement between SFSU and two of the university’s Jewish students. The new coordinator’s name was not included in the statement.
The lawsuit, filed in 2018 by The Lawfare Project, was initiated after anti-Zionist groups on campus prevented members from Hillel, the largest Jewish organization at SFSU, from attending a fair meant for marginalized groups. Faculty member Rabab Abdulhadi, an adviser to the General Union of Palestine Students, which helped organize the fair, defended the decision. He wrote that “the organizers refused to allow a member of a privileged white group whose members feel entitled to be represented everywhere and anywhere.”
The lawsuit also accused campus security of failing to intervene when then-Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s speech at SFSU in 2016 had to be canceled, as anti-Israel students was disrupted by protesters organized by the General Union of Palestine Students, who chanted anti-Israel slogans and prevented Barkat from speaking.
The lawsuit alleged discrimination and civil rights violations “sanctioned by high-ranking university officials.”