Over 350 scholars tell UC regents to discuss, act on report on anti-Israel profs fueling Jew-hatred

(JNS) — More than 350 current and former University of California scholars signed a letter calling on the system’s regents to discuss a recent AMCHA Initiative report about antisemitism at their next meeting.

Judea Pearl, a University of California, Los Angeles computer science professor and father of Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002, organized the letter with Ilan Benjamin, a distinguished professor emeritus of chemistry at UC Santa Cruz.

At press time, 279 current and 89 former UC professors had signed the letter. The refere...