In Berkeley Public Schools, a War Gives Rise to Unusual Tensions

On Oct. 18, hundreds of Berkeley High School students, with the blessing of some of their teachers, left their classrooms in the middle of the day and gathered at a nearby park. “From the river to the sea!” One of their teachers, Becky Villagran, thanked the crowd of roughly 150, telling them not to forget that the toll of the victims of the war in Gaza was more than a number. Just as on the nearby campus of the University of California — famed since the 1960s for its marches,...