Ending his sit-in, UC Berkeley professor says campus response to antisemitism has improved

(JTA) — Israel studies professor Ron Hassner has ended his two-week sit-in at his University of California, Berkeley office, saying the school had made sufficient commitments to satisfy his concerns about the safety of Jewish students on campus.

Over the last two weeks, the university has pledged to monitor an ongoing pro-Palestinian protest in the center of campus that left many Jewish students feeling harassed. It has also joined a consortium operated by Hillel International, the Jewish campus organization. And Ran Bar-Yoshafat, an Israeli speaker whose talk the…