A UC Berkeley law professor urged employers not to hire students with anti-Semitic views amid a scandal that has engulfed some American universities over views expressed by their students after a Hamas attack on Israel, Business Insider reported.

Professor Stephen Davidoff Solomon made the call in his article published by The Wall Street Journal, in which he commented on the case of the dismissal of a New York University law student by the law firm Winston & Strawn.

The student in question strongly condemned Israel in a letter published after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7.

“Recruiters need to do what Winston & Strawn did: treat these students as adults. If a student advocates hatred, dehumanization, or anti-Semitism, don’t hire them,” Professor Solomon wrote.

He also noted that “anti-Semitic behavior is nothing new on college campuses,” citing last year’s initiative by the Berkeley Law Student League for Justice in Palestine as an example.

The league and other student organizations lobbied for a resolution that would have banned supporters of Israel from speaking at events on the Berkeley campus.

“The behavior of the Berkeley students is part of a larger anti-Jewish sentiment on college campuses that enabled last week’s massacre. It’s a shame that she was put up with for so long,” Solomon accused.

In a ranking published by US News, the University of Berkeley is ranked 15th in the ranking of the best higher education institutions in the United States.

Anti-Semitic scandal also at Harvard University

Solomon’s WSJ op-ed also comes after a coalition of 34 Harvard University student organizations published an open letter last week condemning Israel as “solely responsible for all the violence that’s going on” after decades of occupation, adding that “apartheid” the regime is the only culprit.”

US News ranks Harvard third in its ranking, tied with Yale and trailing only Princeton and MIT.

Among the Harvard student organizations that signed the letter are Muslim and Palestinian rights groups, as well as others with names of various origins, including Harvard Jews for Liberation and the African American Resistance Organization.

Several influential alumni of Harvard University, which has given the United States eight presidents and four of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices, strongly condemned the publication of the letter by today’s students.

Harvard University President Claudine Gay and senior leadership, including 15 deans, released a statement last Monday saying they were “heartbroken by the death and destruction caused by the Hamas attack against Israeli citizens over the weekend.”

In a separate announcement last Thursday, Gay said the university rejects terrorism but also rejects bullying based on beliefs and opinions “that many of us may find reprehensible, even repugnant.”

“We do not punish or impose sanctions on people for expressing such opinions. But this is completely different from their support,” she said in a video message.

His comments came after executives from several Wall Street firms called on the university to release the names of the students who belong to the student organizations in question to avoid hiring them “by mistake” in the future.

Billionaire Idan Ofer, Israel’s richest man, and his wife left their positions at Harvard University after the scandal, saying they were disappointed by the attitude of the institution’s leadership.