Three students say UCLA allowed other students and outsiders to set up an encampment, stopping Jewish students from accessing the heart of the campus.
Three Jewish students have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the University of California’s Board of Regents and other university officials, alleging UCLA allowed “anti-Semitic activists” to bar them and other students from going to their classes, offices and the library during pro-Palestinian demonstrations in April and May.
“We are aware of the lawsuit that was filed today,” according to a statement from UCLA. “We will review and respond in due course. UCLA remains committed to supporting the safety and well-being of the entire Bruin community.” “If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Gov. Gavin Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately,” said Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit public interest law firm.
Plaintiff Yitzchok Frankel, a law student and father of four, alleges he faced anti-Semitic harassment and was forced to abandon his regular routes through campus because of the so-called Jewish “exclusion zone,” the suit states.
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