Judge Orders UCLA to Create Plan to Protect Jewish Students on Campus

Published on July 30, 2024

A federal judge has given the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) one week to draft a plan that would ensure its Jewish students won’t be blocked from attending classes by anti-Israel protesters, as happened this spring. The July 29 directive was issued a month after three Jewish students sued UCLA for allegedly allowing pro-Palestinian activists to barricade the center of the campus and establish an encampment that illegally obstructed passage to campus facilities. UCLA has been among the many campuses in the United States and around the world where demonstrators set up encampments in protest of the war in Gaza, which was Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7 that left about 1,200 people dead and more than 200 kidnapped....