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UC Berkeley slammed for promoting radical communist leaders at taxpayer expense: Report

Nypost · · 398 words · By Daniel Farr
Educational Ideology Curriculum Oversight Academic Freedom vs. Political Activism
open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/uc-berkeley-promoting-castro-che-guevara-a…

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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A University of California, Berkeley-linked teacher training program funded with taxpayer dollars is under fire after a watchdog group claimed it promotes activist-oriented ethnic studies”
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Multiple web search results from different news outlets (MSN, and others) report that a watchdog group (Defending Education) has accused a UC Berkeley-linked teacher training program of promoting radical activism at taxpayer expense. UC Berkeley is a public university, which inherently involves taxpayer funding.
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web search NEUTRAL — The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Berkeley, California, Unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berk…
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web search NEUTRAL — University of California, Berkeley -artikel om van Leeuwenhoek.
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Supporters argue the funding, which has received bipartisan support, would help sustain local journalism while cultivating a future workforce for community news outlets.Critics argue taxpayer funding …
https://blackchronicle.com/midwest/minnesota/minnesota-lawma…
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“Defending Education released a report Monday examining UC Berkeley’s high school ethnic studies training initiatives, including a 2024 session titled “Teaching Histories of Anti-Imperialistic Solidarity.””
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Defending Education released a report on Monday regarding UC Berkeley's ethnic studies training and specifically mention the promotion of radicals and the context of the training.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_School_of_Law
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF or UC Law) is a public law school in San Francisco. Formerly known as the University of California, Hastings College of the La…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Colle…
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“The group alleges the program encourages educators to present figures such as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the Black Panther Party in a positive light”
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Multiple news sources (MSN, and others) explicitly state that the Defending Education report alleges the program guides teachers to promote figures like Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and the Black Panthers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Epstein files comprise over six million pages of documents detailing the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far about three and a half million fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Strange McNamara (; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009), also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense…
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“The report also highlights references to the Venceremos Brigade, an organization that arranges trips to Cuba and is described as a fiscal project of The People’s Forum.”
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Wikipedia and Influence Watch confirm the Venceremos Brigade is an organization that arranges trips to Cuba. Additionally, a news source (Just The News) explicitly states it switched its fiscal sponsorship to The People's Forum in 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sandra Levinson is the executive director and co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Cuban Studies, and the founder and curator of the Cuban Art Space gallery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Levinson
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Venceremos is a Spanish and Portuguese word meaning "we will overcome", or "we will win". Venceremos may refer to: Venceremos, a battle cry and the name of several republican newspapers during the S…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Venceremos Brigade is an international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and officials of the Republic of Cuba. It was formed as a coalition o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venceremos_Brigade
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“Researchers further flagged language used in the 2024 session, including a land acknowledgment referencing “witnessing the ongoing genocide of Palestinians” and calling for “solidarity campaigns for the liberation of Palestine, Congo, and other oppressed countries.””
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While the general context of Gaza protests at UC Berkeley is verified by Wikipedia, the specific wording of the land acknowledgment and the call for solidarity with Congo mentioned in the report is not independently corroborated by a second news source in the provided evidence; it appears only as part of the report's claims.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the Gaza war and genocide, protests on university campuses in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in California in 2024 since protests escalated at the Columbia University campus occupation on April 17. Campus protests initially spr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pro-Palestinian_protes…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ussama Makdisi (born 1968) is an American historian specializing in the history of the modern Middle East. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussama_Makdisi
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“The report also says instructors discussed using images of Castro, Che Guevara and the Black Panthers in classroom instruction”
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Multiple web search results reporting on the Defending Education report confirm the allegation that instructors discussed using images of Castro, Che Guevara, and the Black Panthers in classrooms.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution beg…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Former first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Council of State, Fidel Castro died of Parkinson's disease brought on by natural causes in his sleep at 22:29 (CST) on the ev…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and pr…
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“UC Berkeley did not directly address the specific allegations.”
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The provided evidence does not contain a statement from UC Berkeley responding to these specific allegations, nor does it provide a second source confirming the university's silence. This is a claim from the original reporting.
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web search NEUTRAL — The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Berkeley, California, Unit…
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web search NEUTRAL — Berkeley admitted that it had also failed to disclose to the U.S. government a $19 million contract in 2016 paid direct to Berkeley from Tsinghua University, which is controlled by the Chinese governm…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/uc-berkeley-failed-to-disclose…
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web search NEUTRAL — No specific timeline for waitlist admits. If space opens up before the SIR deadline of May 1, then students can be pulled from the waitlist. Residency type and major are not broken out for the UC wait…
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