UCLA has been fighting in federal court for more than seven months Jewish students’ accusations and teachers who achieved anti-Semitic action during a pro-Palestine campus camp last spring.
In court documents, lawyers from both sides argued whether the action in the camp, including the Jewish student leaders, was an anti-Semitic who prevented pro-Israeli or Zionists from using the camp’s sidewalk. Both sides point to who is responsible for the camp. Is it a university? The university did not immediately remove it, and whose staff helped the metal barrier strengthen it? Or took over a small number of protesters on campus?
Trump administration got involved in conflict at the Justice Department on Monday Submit court documents Support students and teachers’ right to prosecute discrimination and accuse UCLA of trying to “evade responsibility” so-called anti-Semitism.
The Justice Department said the action is a new multi-policy federal task force to combat anti-Semitism. The group said it before Plan visit UCLA, USC and eight other American campuses. There is no announcement date.
“The President, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Task Force know that every student must go to school freely without discriminating based on their race, religion or nationality,” said Leo Terrel, a member of the Task Force, and Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights. “The Department of Justice is working to combat anti-Semitism with all the tools available.”
Mark Rienzi, president of Becket Fund, a nonprofit that represents UCLA Jewish plaintiffs, said in a statement that the Trump administration “ditched the gloves: if university executives assisted and taught the Jewish misunderstanding, they would wake up for every waking university.
In response to the Justice Department, a UCLA spokesman said the university was “committed to eliminating anti-Semitism.”
“Prime Minister Julio Frenk, who joined UCLA in January, has a good track record of fighting anti-Semitism and is actively working to help UCLA achieve our goal of living, working and learning peacefully and learning freely in all members of our community,” said Mary Osako, “Mary Osako. Osako said the deputy premier of the Declaration. The university launched an “initiative to combat anti-Semitism” to address “our common, omnipotent anti-Semitism goal.”
The Trump administration’s move is amid federal investigations or warning attacks faced by the University of California, California State University, USC and other California universities – the Department of Justice, Department of Education and other agencies – accusing them of abuse of Jewish students and staff.
The government has threatened to revoke federal funding from universities that do not comply with federal anti-discrimination laws, including major health and scientific research grants. This month, federal authorities $400 million in grant cancelled For Columbia University, it accused its unfortunate pro-Palestinian protests and ignored the alleged anti-Semitism incident.
Trump also called for the deportation of foreign student protesters, accusing them of being “Hamas sympathizers.” Federal authorities have arrested at least two foreign students at Columbia University and tried to arrest another person who fled to Canada.
Critics accused the White House of concerns about anti-Semitism weapons attacking free speech on campus and said the government inaccurately portrayed the pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitism. They noted that while the White House is very concerned about the Jewish campus community, it has little to say for other religious and ethnic groups, including Muslims and Arab Americans, and they also reported an increase in campus hatred incidents on October 7, 2023, in which Hamas attacked the Israeli war in Gaza.
On Tuesday, dozens of UCLA faculty members sent a letter to the university administration calling on leaders to boycott “government officials attempted to harm pro-Palestine students, faculty or faculty members who violated the Trump administration’s current McCarthy administration.”
“We strongly oppose the federal government’s efforts to arrest, deport or pressure the university in honor of UCLA students, faculty or staff, or any university that is considered politically unacceptable because of their support for freedom to the Palestinian people.” “We reject all calls for compilation of lists of people who are arrested, deported or disciplined, and reject any attempt to call our names to harass, fire, arrest or expel members of these operations, but rather measures toward these operations, but direct attacks on democracy and freedom of expression.”
The letter came out, with the UC Regent starting a three-day meeting at UCLA, where the UC system’s response to various federal actions – on anti-Semitism, response to diversity initiatives, and health and scientific research – is joining the agenda.
More than 100 students also held protests outside the Regent’s meeting on Tuesday, calling for the system to divest investment holdings related to weapons companies and Israel. A student spokesman for graduate students from Palestine accused the Regent of “using Trump’s threat as an excuse” to cut free speech rights and anti-war actions.
Speaking about Columbia’s activities, the student later added: “Is the next step to UCLA?”
The ongoing UCLA court case focused on the Pro-Palestinian camp on the Royce Quad that rose on April 25. The largest and most controversial Built on university campuses across the United States Mobs attacked the camp On April 30, the law enforcement response was delayed for several hours. Police destroyed the camp on May 1 and arrested more than 200 people.
Before the camp, a showdown and anti-Israel rally occurred, with a few videos spreading, and Jewish students said they were denied entry into the camp on their way to the university building.
Protesters and their supporters said they did not stop Jews from walking by, but instead tried to redirect anti-Israel and Zionists to reduce conflict and conflict.
The UCLA objected to the lawsuit, saying its camp operations focused on security and downgrade tensions rather than discrimination against Jews. Its lawyers noted that the UC system has made significant changes to ensure safety during the protests. UC system also uses Zero tolerance policy Any protests for breaking campus code.
At UCLA, authorities cleared the original camp and created one, quickly closing multiple camps New Campus Safety Office. UCLA’s new protest rules limit campus areas where demonstrations can be conducted.
A federal judge in August issued a preliminary injunction against UCLA, ordering the university to ensure equal opportunities on campus.
“UCLA may not allow other students who know that other students are religiously based on the UCLA, regardless of who is excluding, under constitutional principles,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Mark C. Scarsi.
The students and staff who filed the lawsuit asked the judge to issue a permanent injunction on the same matter.
