University of California, Berkeley suspended a lecturer after finding that he engaged in anti-Israel advocacy in the classroom.

The Daily Californian , a student newspaper, reported that Peyrin Kao, a computer science lecturer, is to be suspended for the spring 2026 semester.

Benjamin Hermalin, executive vice chancellor and provost of Berkeley, stated in an Oct. 20 letter to the heads of the computer sciences department that Kao violated school policy when he said in one of his classes that he was engaging in a hunger strike and provided a link for students to understand his motivations.

Kao’s hunger strike was “in support of Palestinians in Gaza,” Hermalin wrote.

The lecturer said at the end of a class in April 2024 that “he believed actions in Gaza constituted genocide” and cal

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