Three Jewish students from UCLA filed a lawsuit against the university Regents and other officials over the controversial pro-Palestinian encampment.
Three Jewish students from UCLA filed a federal lawsuit against the president of the University of California and the university's leadership on Wednesday over the controversial pro-Palestinian encampment that popped up on its campus in April and May.
'In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs claimed the activists used barriers and physically blocked students from passing through unless they said a statement of allegiance to the activists' views, received a 'vouch' from a member of the encampment and disavowed Israel. The complaint alleges that the demonstrators handed out wristbands and 'other forms of identification' to people who passed the check. The students' attorneys called the area a 'Jew Exclusion Zone.
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