Overview

• UC Berkeley notified affected faculty, staff and students on Sept. 4 that their names appeared in documents the UC Office of General Counsel provided to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on Aug. 18.
• Campus officials said OCR required comprehensive files related to alleged antisemitic incidents and that names could reflect only a potential connection, including those accused, affected or filing complaints.
• Multiple outlets reported that prominent scholar Judith Butler was among those flagged in the materials provided to federal investigators.
• The UC system faces escalating federal pressure, with $584 million in UCLA research grants frozen, $83 million court‑ordered back, and a leaked 28‑page proposal outlining a nearly $1.2 billion fine and sweeping policy changes in exchange for releasing funds.
• Opposition is growing as about 150 Jewish professors urged UC regents not to negotiate and a new Ipsos poll found most Jewish Americans oppose the administration’s funding cuts approach to campus antisemitism.