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University Draws Backlash After Students Offered Extra Credit to Attend Pro-Palestinian Event

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The University of California, Berkeley, is facing backlash after a teaching assistant sent an email to students offering them extra credit if they participated in a pro-Palestinian protest.

The email sent by graduate student Victoria Huynh on Tuesday was for a class titled “Asian American Communities and Race Relations,” according to Fox News.

Huynh told students they could receive extra credit in one of two ways.

They could “attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza” or “watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative.”

This is a real e-mail distributed at an Asian studies class @UCBerkeley.

This is the same institution that welcomed in disgraced SF DA,

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