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UC Berkeley to act on antisemitism after $1M Brandeis Center settlement

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The University of California, Berkeley, will pay $1 million and make changes to its policies on antisemitism after settling a lawsuit with the Brandeis Center. The $1 million penalty will act as a reimbursement to the Brandeis Center for outside attorneys’ fees.
Under the settlement, UC Berkeley is to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on an individual’s actual or perceived religion, shared ancestry, shared ethnicity and/or national or ethnic origin, specifically Jewish or Israeli. The university has also agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. However, in a statement released by UC Berkeley after the settlement, the university said it had an “existing practice” of considering the IHRA definition of antisemitism in its reviews of allegations of antisemitism.
The university will also clarify on its Office for Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) website that “bans on Zionists have historically been used by some individuals and institutions as a pretext for excluding Jews,” according to the settlement. This includes reviewing whether Zionism or the term “Zionists” is used as a “proxy” for Jews or Israelis.
“This settlement reflects UC Berkeley’s long-standing values and objectives when it comes to combating abhorrent antisemitic expression, harassment, and discrimination when it occurs on the Berkeley campus,” UC Berkeley said in a statement.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The university also noted that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently described Jewish life at UC Berkeley as “excellent” in its Campus Antisemitism Report Card. The ADL gave UC Berkeley a “B” grade on its 2026 report card, showing improvement from the “C” it received in 2025 and the “D” grade it got in 2024.
“What happened at Berkeley is a cautionary tale. Universities, unions, corporations, and political parties cannot create an anti-Zionist exception to their conduct codes. They cannot silence Jewish Americans on the pretext of advancing their own political agendas. As we have now seen time and again, if left unaddressed antisemitic bigotry, whether or not masked as anti-Zionism, only continues to expand,” Hon. Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who ran the Office for Civil Rights said in a statement.
Paul Eckles, senior litigation counsel at the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, told Fox News Digital that the settlement marked a “major milestone” in combating antisemitism, but that it “is not the finish line.”
The lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2023, alleged widespread antisemitic harassment of Jewish students at UC Berkeley in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. The suit described several stories of students’ experiences with antisemitic harassment at UC Berkeley.
A UC Berkeley student, who was draped in an Israeli flag, was attacked by two protesters who hit him in the head with a metal water bottle, according to the lawsuit. In another instance, a Jewish graduate student was the victim of a break-in and was left a note that said “F–k the Jews, Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.” The lawsuit also noted that “many Jewish students are afraid to go to class.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters carry signs as they march in front of Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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There were also instances in which protesters blocked Jewish students, spat at them and used ethnic slurs, including “dirty Zionist,” the lawsuit states. It noted that students were often targeted if rioters knew they were Jewish or if they were wearing Stars of David or yarmulkes.
Eckles praised the Jewish students who came forward to tell their stories of experiencing antisemitic harassment only for their complaints to be ignored.
“I think it was the power of their stories and just the clear impact that real tangible antisemitism had on them and their experience at the school that ultimately paved the way for the settlement and convinced UC Berkeley to adopt the reforms in the agreement,” Eckles said.
Two Jewish professors’ experiences were also included in the suit. In one case, a Jewish professor received an email “calling for his gassing and murder,” according to the lawsuit. The other Jewish professor was a vandalism victim with graffiti messages calling him a terrorist.
The lawsuit also mentioned an instance on Feb. 26, 2024, in which a student group known as Bears for Palestine succeeded in a plan to shut down a speaking engagement organized by Jewish students. The speaker was Ran Bar Yoshafat, an Israel Defense Forces reservist and lawyer. As the “violent mob” shut down the event, a rioter spat on a Jewish student and called him a “dirty Jew,” according to the lawsuit.

With a background of tents, boards covered with painting and fliers of support for Palestinians surround Sproul Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where pro-Palestinian supporters have set up tents and a perimeter of barriers, photographed May 4, 2024 in Berkeley, Calif. (Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images)
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Shortly after entering office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at combating antisemitism. Additionally, in February 2025, the Justice Department formed a task force specifically focused on fighting antisemitism. Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Leo Terrell was tapped to head the task force.

Rachel Wolf is a media and culture reporter for Fox News Digital.

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MP News: ‘Don’t move ahead, the truck is unbalanced’, truck full of straw kept running diagonally in Rajgarh, police kept screaming and then…

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Sometimes accidents give signals in advance – they just need to be understood. On March 19, one such horrifying scene came to light on National Highway-52 near Jalpa Mata Temple in Rajgarh, where a truck filled with straw got tilted and gradually became a threat of death… and overturned within a few moments. This entire incident was captured live in the mobile camera of a young man sitting in a car.

Actually, due to Chaitra Navratri, the crowd of devotees in the temple area is at its peak. Meanwhile, the truck (MP09 HH9466) going from Sironj in Vidisha district to Rajasthan was loaded with chaff more than its capacity. Due to overloading, the truck had lost balance and was moving in a dangerous manner on the highway road from Rajgarh towards Jalpa Mata Temple. The danger was increasing with every passing second.

Policemen kept shouting- ‘Don’t move ahead… the truck is unbalanced’

When head constables Mohin Khan, Chandrabhan Gurjar and Satish Bhilala, posted at Dial-112 on the spot, saw this scene, they realized that now it was just a matter of a few moments. He immediately parked his car in the middle of the road and stopped traffic from both sides. The policemen kept stopping people by shouting in a loud voice – “Don’t move ahead… the truck is unbalanced…”.

The most surprising thing during this time was that despite continuous warnings from the police, the truck driver did not stop the vehicle. The truck kept moving forward diagonally and suddenly overturned on the road. People watching that moment were stunned – and some people recorded the entire incident on their mobile phones from inside a car parked there.

It is seen in the viral video that if the police had delayed even for a few seconds, the vehicles coming out of the highway could have been hit by this truck. Considering the number of vehicles of devotees passing through the road due to Navratri, this accident could have been very frightening.

The driver was taken out by breaking the glass

The policemen did not stop even after the truck overturned. He immediately broke the glass of the truck and took out driver Phoolsingh Ahirwal (resident of Barakhedi, district Vidisha) and cleaner Santosh Yadav safely. It is a matter of relief that neither of them suffered any serious injuries.

This incident is not just an accident but also shows the difference between negligence and responsibility – on one hand the overloaded truck and the driver ignoring the warning, and on the other hand the police who took a decision in a few seconds and saved dozens of lives. Live video is now a witness to the fact that danger does not come suddenly… it comes gradually and a decision taken at the right time can even avert it.

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Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior • The Register

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March 20, 2026
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Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.

CEO Yongming Wu revealed the 470,000 figure during the company’s Q3 2026 earnings call, without specifying the model he referred to. Alibaba has created several chips at least three chips designed for AI workloads, including the infamously buggy XuanTie C908, the TH1520 for edge AI, and the Pingtouge Zhenwu 810E. The latter debuted in January and is thought to be competitive with Nvidia’s H20, a throttled version of a 2023-vintage Hopper architecture accelerator.

If Wu was referring solely to the 810E, delivering 470,000 since January is impressive as it puts Alibaba’s output at the same pace as Nvidia’s: CEO Jensen Huang last year said the company shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in a year.

However the Zhenwu 810E cannot compete with accelerators from Nvidia or AMD, a fact Wu acknowledged.

“Given that our chips still lag behind foreign counterparts and performance in various respects, we aspire to engage in more profound co-design with Alibaba’s cloud infrastructure and the Qwen model to provide improved cost effectiveness,” the CEO said. “This is one key differentiator and how we approach chip design at T-Head that sets us apart from other chip companies. Our primary goal is to create AI capabilities that offer superior value for money.”

He also said developing its own chips gives Alibaba “guaranteed supply of AI computing power,” which he said is necessary given “the unique circumstances currently facing the AI industry in China” – likely a reference to US export bans on advanced accelerators.

Wu also thinks developing its entire stack will mean Alibaba can lower inferencing costs, and that doing so will mean the company’s cloud can rake in plenty of profits as demand for AI services increases.

Alibaba Cloud is already doing well, growing quarterly revenue 36 percent year-over-year to $6.2 billion. The company predicted it can reach $100 billion of annual cloud and AI revenue within five years.

Wu also commented on speculation that Alibaba plans to spin out T-Head, saying the company doesn’t rule out a future float but has no “definitive time line” for making it happen.

Alibaba’s revenue for the quarter landed at $40.7 billion, representing two percent growth. Execs pointed out that had it not sold some businesses, growth would have been nine percent.

Domestic e-commerce and logistics services remain the company’s main businesses, together accounting for almost half of revenue. International e-commerce services brought in $5.6 billion, a six percent year-over-year increase.

That’s an unwelcome result for Alibaba, given Beijing is looking to its e-commerce giants to help it achieve a goal of increasing export sales.

That leaves Alibaba’s cloud as its only fast-growing business, and with a lot riding on its ability to achieve the swift surge to from around $25 billion to $100 billion annual revenue.

CEO Wu thinks that growth is achievable because Alibaba Cloud saw a 6x increase in token consumption on its model studio platform in the last six months alone.

He thinks that kind of growth will recur.

“Cloud and software budgets for enterprise IT services have traditionally represented only around 5 percent of corporate revenue,” he said. “As model-driven agents begin to handle mainstream work tasks across industries, our total addressable market will expand by several multiples.” ®

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