UC Berkeley class offers extra credit for attending pro-Palestine student walkout
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Victoria Huynh, who is an aide in lecturer Harvey Dong’s course entitled “Asian American Communities and Race Relations,” gave the students the incentive in an email Tuesday,“Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative using this linktree,” the Ph.D. student in ethnic studies wrote. “Doing so will either count as a field trip or an extra 5 points on the field trip category of your grade.
The email has been shared widely on X, where it garnered more than 2.3 million views and drew condemnation from pro-Israel activists who called it indoctrination.On Wednesday, UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof told J. that “as soon as the administration was made aware of the assignment it moved quickly to ensure that it would be changed.Mogulof cited a policy adopted by the University of California Board of Regents in 1970 and amended in 2005.
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