UC Berkeley to change course description process after one praised Hamas

The University of California at Berkeley will reexamine its course description publishing processes, after the university's comparative literature department publicized a course offering for this coming semester that presented Hamas as a "revolutionary resistance forces combating settler-colonialism." The course description also discussed "the US-backed and -funded genocide being carried out against Indigenous Palestinians by the Israeli Occupying Force." UC Berkeley stated that "this is a course designed by graduate students. The content of the course, including the syllabus, has not been approved by the responsible lecturer, the head of the department, the department or the academy's management. The course description was published without sufficient review and was removed from the campus websites pending the end of a strict academic review. Following the incident, the department will re-examine the processes of publishing its course descriptions." 