Media super agent Jay Sures, a UC Regent, was targeted by anti-Israel protesters who vandalized his California home and surrounded his wife's car. Sures condemned the incident, calling it a terrifying ordeal for his family and vowing to hold those responsible accountable.
Media super agent Jay Sures has denounced a group of anti-Israel protesters who vandalized his California home and encircled his wife's car on Wednesday in what he described as a terrifying ordeal for his family.
Sures, the vice chair of United Talent Agency and a member of the University of California (UC) Board of Regents, informed Fox News Digital that the protesters swarmed the exterior of his Brentwood residence and plastered his garage doors with red handprints along with banners containing what he alleged were death threats. He and his wife were present at home during the incident. When she attempted to leave in her car, the protesters surrounded the vehicle, Sures recalled. 'When my wife tried to leave our house, they surrounded her car for 15 minutes, she was absolutely terrified,' said Sures, a staunch supporter of Israel who played a key role in UC’s decision to prohibit political statements from the university homepages of its departments. Sures' United Talent Agency represents numerous prominent on-air news personalities as well as celebrated figures in the entertainment industry such as Heidi Klum, Ludacris, and Seth Rogen, according to the company's Instagram account. Dozens of masked protesters descended upon his family home around 6:15 a.m. local time, banging drums and carrying a large banner proclaiming, 'Jonathan Sures you will pay until you see your final day.' The protesters also strung yellow caution tape on the property’s front garden hedge and affixed posters bearing Sures' picture to his garage doors. Some of the posters read, 'Diverse now, or you will pay' while another large banner they erected on his front garden hedge had 'Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest' written across it. This term is a common rallying cry for individuals who advocate for companies and higher education institutions to cease business dealings with the state of Israel. 'It's disappointing that this hateful and antisemitic organization targeted me and my wife,' said Sures, who is Jewish. 'I am confident that LAPD and UCLA will find and prosecute those responsible for the vandalism and death threats and most importantly, those who surrounded my wife's car for 15 minutes and prevented her free movement.' Sures told Deadline that this was the first time protesters had targeted his home and expressed that he believed they had crossed a line by doing so. 'It’s one thing to peacefully protest, but to go to an administrator or a regent’s house to violate the hundred-foot rule, which is what it is in Los Angeles, to disturb the entire neighborhood by pounding on drums, to surround my wife’s car and prevent her from free movement, and to put up signs, threatening my family and my life and vandalize the house, that is a big escalation,' he stated to the outlet. He shared with the outlet that he believes he was targeted due to his support for Israel and his defense of Jewish students on campus. He has served on the Board of Regents since 2019, and his term is set to expire in 2032.LAPD and UCLA PD officers responded to the scene, according to a police report cited by Deadline. However, no arrests were made. The Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA claimed responsibility for the protest on Instagram. 'He has attempted to intimidate faculty and students who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza, but we refuse to stay silent,' the group wrote. The protesters asserted in a statement that Sures was targeted for allegedly suppressing pro-Palestine speech and expression on campus. They claimed that the regents had expelled them from their meetings, canceled forums for public comment, and 'criminalized' attempts to protest investment policies. 'We have taken our issues straight to the regents because they have systematically militarized our campus in response. Over the last eight months, Jay Sures has led the UC’s efforts in suppressing pro-Palestine speech and expression on-campus, including through increased militarization and draconian time, place and manner (TPM) policies.' In November 2023, Sures criticized a faculty council that defended Hamas' attack on Israel in a letter and demanded UC administrators cease referring to the attacks as 'terrorism.' The faculty council letter called on UC leadership to retract the 'charges of terrorism, to uplift the Palestinian freedom struggle, and to stand against Israel’s war crimes against and ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people.'Stett Holbrook, a spokesperson for the university’s president, condemned the protest. 'Yesterday, the private residence of UC Regent Jay Sures was vandalized, and his family and neighbors were harassed,' Holbrook told the Daily Bruin. 'The University strongly supports freedom of speech and the rights of our community members to participate in nonviolent protests, and we condemn all crimes and harassment committed against members of our UC community.
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