From the Daily Cal: The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the UC system [Tuesday] alleging an antisemitic and “hostile educational environment.” The lawsuit alleges that pro-Palestinian protests beginning after Oct. 7, 2023, caused systemic discrimination and violence against Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA and that UCLA neglected those concerns. Additionally, the suit alleges that UCLA faculty is systematically biased against Israelis. It claims that many faculty supported the encampment, used discriminatory hiring practices in the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Cultural Affairs Commission against “Zionist” students and “failed to consider the depth of UCLA students’ racism against Jews and Israelis.”
This suit comes following the DOJ’s investigation into UCLA’s compliance with Title VI, which prohibits federally assisted organizations such as universities from discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin. The lawsuit argues that Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to harassment and a hostile environment created by the pro-Palestine encampment, impeding their access to educational opportunities and resources...
Text of lawsuit: https://dn721605.ca.archive.org/0/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/UCLA_us_v_regents_of_university_of_california%205-26-2026.pdf.
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It might be noted that - as this blog reported yesterday - the Regents committee dealing with the conflict with the feds met Tuesday, i.e., the day the lawsuit was filed. Possibly, the Regents had some advance notice of the filing. But since the meeting was closed-door, we will never know.
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