The Jewish student at Berkeley sues the Union Branch of the UAW for alleged anti-Semitism

First on fox- Israeli Jew Dr. Sc. A student at Berkeley University (UCB) sued her local union union of associate car industry workers (UAW) for his alleged discrimination against Israeli and Jewish unions members in order to promote the anti -Israelic Agenda at Campus.

Karin Yaniv filed a lawsuit against her local UAW branch on Friday, claiming that she and other Israeli Jews were excluded from full union participation on the basis of her ethnicity. The lawsuit states that union members have acted hostile, discriminating and anti -Semitic ways, which her lawyers say it is a violation of the Civil Rights Act and the Law of California.

“The union of the union’s anti -Israeli union has created an enemy’s work environment for many of us in the campus,” Yaniv said Fox News Digital. “They discriminated against Israeli members, including me, from trade union activities and on top of all this, attack our academic freedom. This target abuse based on our nationality and faith is anti -Semitic and I want to invite them to the court for their actions.”

“Hostility and abuse was focused only on Israeli members and it was clearly focused on or because of their national origin, race and religious faith, which is a violation of the title VII,” Federal The lawsuit reads. “Support for the Union and participating in these protests encouraged the atmosphere of hostility and terror for Israeli Jews, such as Yaniva, who felt outdated, on target and insecure.”

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UAW, which is an official abbreviation for the International Union, United Cars, Aerospace and Agricultural implement Workers of America, is one of the largest unions in North America, with members in the wide sectors of the economy, including academics. Uc Berkeley was a the focus of anti -Israeli feelings and antisemic demonstrationsespecially after the Hamas Terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. The Yanivo lawyer said that a lawsuit was attempted to shed light on the alleged role of union in supporting the protest against Israel in the campus.

In recent years, his members have coordinated and supported anti -Israel and anti -Semitic campus activities, and union leaders allegedly encouraged members to attend anti -Israeli conferences and walks.

The lawsuit is charged with sharing the union resources with declining organizations in the campus to promote the “boycott, seizure and sanctions” (BDS) against Israel and that he allegedly regularly held Yaniva and other Israeli Jews away from union communications, including activities related to BDS -O activities.

“Now they want to institutionalize it, they have a long -term solution to get us out of here,” Yaniv said.

As dr.sc. A student (or postdoctoral work), Yaniv represented the union whether or not she was a member of the membership fee. But after October 7, she said that she decided to hire more and become a member who pays so that she could get into dialogue with the lead after the attack.

“The union announced a statement a few days after the crime on October 7, which seemed to many of us as a knife stab in the back,” she said. “They blame Israel for what happened, did not condemn Hamas, did not call for the release of hostages. It was a painful moment for many of us in Jewish communities on campus.”

“We tried to get involved in dialogue with them to change that statement or understand our position and how we can work together, but we failed, and this lawsuit is about the end of the anti -Semitic culture of my union,” she added.

A statement from the Union Executive Board criticized “a decade violent occupation of Palestine, which led to this escalation of terrible violence,” saying that she regretted the death of the Israelites and Palestinians as he condemns the Israeli “Early Right Government”.

One Israeli union member, Yael Nidam, had family members Hamas abducted in October 7, and says that union members laughed when she spoke against the behavior of the union and the attack on Israeli academics like her, interrupted her and wrote “Lmfao [laughing my f—ing a– off]”In Zoom chat of the meeting. Yaniv claims that union officials did nothing to stop any of the offensive incidents.

“She [Nidam] spoke as a peace activist about how to gather us, [but] People laughed at her, “Yaniv said.” This is not new to me. That happened when my Israeli friends spoke, people laughed. But when it happened Yael, it seemed that this disrespect had become a structural culture of anti -Semitism and discrimination. “

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“Officials and members of the union used some slang like ‘lmfao’ at union meetings, and Yaniv believes that union members and officials did so intentionally in an attempt to mock Israeli members of language that they do not understand,” the lawsuit said.

In April 2024. As part of the UCB the infamous pro-Palestinian campThe union leadership founded its own “Union Village” in an attempt to legitimize the camp in the eyes of the university administrator, the lawsuit claims.

“The Gaza camp was highlighted with anti -Semitic symbolism and rhetoric on banners and signs, including the reverse red triangle that Hamas used to identify military goals and which was known during the Holocaust to mark political prisoners in concentration camps,” the lawsuit said. “The Union did not condemn this anti -Semitic symbolism or rhetoric and, in fact, established Union Village near banners and signs.”

“University leadership and administration wanted to portray this camp as something [done by] outsiders, not exactly students, “Yaniv said.” But the union came to their aid, set a trade union village with violent rhetoric … [and] The violent signs that remind me of the propaganda of Hamas. Really didn’t feel safe. “

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Yaniv also claimed that the union shared information and resources with external groups such as the Bears for Palestine Failed Group, which was responsible for closing a speech event for an Israeli lawyer and political advocate, calling him a “genocidal killer” who spreads “Zionist propaganda”, according to a lawsuit.

Yanivo’s lawyer, Danielle Susanj, who works as an executive vice president of a non -profit law firm Fairness Center, told Fox News Digital that a lawsuit “clearly shows that instead of condemning her [antisemitism] Or even since it is neutral, the union chooses the side and it is very clear which side he chooses. “

“And the Federal Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and California Law prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, faith or nationality, and therefore we think that in this situation the union has done all three,” she added.

The lawsuit seeks compensation and law fees.

She said the unions are responsible for doing the members and subject to the same laws as many employers, preventing them from discriminating on the basis of race, religion or nationality. The head of the VII Act on Civic Rights is said to be illegal for a “worker organization” to “discriminate … any individual because of his race, skin color, religion, gender or national origin.”

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“Karin bravely stepped forward and somehow shed light on what was happening here really revealed, at least at UC Berkeley, what support for a lot of what we saw was happening on university campuses in the last year and a half, at least on Berkeley” , she said.

Yaniv said that she and other postdoctors tried to talk to the administration about their experience in the hope of dealing with harassment, but the answer from the University was that their hands were tied when it came to union activities.

“On October 7, he brought a lot of difficult emotions and I didn’t expect to see what I saw,” Yaniv said. “I didn’t expect the union to join Hamas or against Israel’s existence. It was really unexpected, it was a knife in the back for many of us.”

Fox News Digital addressed the UAW national and local Berkeley branches for comment. The university spokesman said it was a legal dispute that was not related to the school.

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Chris Pandolfo and Ashley Economou from Fox News contributed to this report.