Gabe Stutman

1 month ago | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

An educational video on LGBTQ issues shown this month to high school students in Marin County featured a young transgender woman smiling softly, wearing a cream cardigan over a T-shirt that glorifies a Palestinian hijacker. The T-shirt displays the image of a kaffiyeh-clad woman holding an assault rifle and the words "resistance is not terrorism." The woman is Leila Khaled, a longtime member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

2 months ago | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

A team of lawyers is putting the finishing touches on a lawsuit against Oakland's Jerusalem Coffee House, J. learned this week, and is planning to file a complaint in state court alleging civil rights violations "very, very soon," one lawyer said. The lawsuit promises to launch the coffee shop back into the headlines after a series of incidents last year, including an internet firestorm when it released a "Sweet Sinwar" drink around the first anniversary of the Oct.

Jan 24, 2025 | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

A now-removed description of an upcoming event at UC Berkeley accused Israel of fabricating reports of widespread sexual assault on Oct. 7, 2023, to support its war against Hamas. The description of the event, a panel organizedby the gender and women's studies department, said it would "look at how Zionism has weaponized feminism, so as to serve Israel's genocidal intent, by upholding debunked accusations of systematic Hamas mass assault," according to a screenshot shared with J. The Feb.

Nov 18, 2024 | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. UC Berkeley has scrubbed a course description from its website that praised authoritarian communist governments, including North Korea’s, and referred to Hamas as a “revolutionary resistance force.” A spokesperson for the university said Monday that the course description was written by graduate students without the permission of the instructor overseeing the class, or of the department chair.

Nov 13, 2024 | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Shocked and disheartened by the result of the presidential election, Bay Area Jewish liberals are trying to come to terms with another Trump win and grieving the end of a once-promising campaign season. Meanwhile, Jewish supporters of the 45th president are celebrating his return to the White House and what it might promise for Israel.