Three Jewish UCLA students filed a federal lawsuit against the UC regents and several university officials on Wednesday, alleging that anti-Israeli protesters blocked them from crucial parts of the campus. In the 74-page filing, the plaintiffs — two second-year law students and a sophomore history major — described UCLA as a “hotbed of antisemitism,” with […]
You could have prevented this by protecting these students. First Amendment right to assemble. You could have prevented this when you learned about rats being released into the encampment. You could have prevented this when there was a anonymous group funded and constructed, again, a giant video with loudspeakers to play file and disturbing footage. […]
Police have arrested a man suspected of assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators in a violent attack at the University of California, Los Angeles, last month. In late April, a group of masked people marched on to the campus at night and attacked a Gaza solidarity encampment. They threw fireworks, beat students, and attacked staff and student journalists […]
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) moved in to disperse pro-Palestinian protests on at UCLA on Thursday, May 23, after clearing a second campus encampment, student media reported. Footage recorded by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel shows protesters heckling officers emerging from inside Dodd Hall. The Daily Bruin, the UCLA student newspaper, reported several protests on Thursday. Police […]
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block found himself in the nation’s culture wars hot seat Thursday, interrogated by members of Congress about his handling of complaints of campus antisemitism, amid student protests over the Israel-Hamas war. For Republican Congress members, the hearing organized by the GOP-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce was a chance to […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters launched a new encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, weeks after their initial camp was violently attacked by counterprotesters and then dismantled by police. Photos of the new encampment showed at least two tents on the Kerckhoff patio Thursday morning. Students said private security and UCLA police were on site, apparently to keep […]
By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) told a U.S. House panel on Thursday that the school should have been ready to immediately remove an encampment of pro-Palestinian activists that became the site of a violent clash with counter-protesters last month. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was […]
To the editor: So there are (or at least were) no-go zones for “Zionist” students on the UCLA campus. That should be enough for you to recognize what these protest encampments are. If you need more, though, it’s right in your article on the hostility to Zionism within the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA: Wearing a […]
To the editor: My son dreamed of going to UCLA since he first visited the campus at age 11. You know, Dad born there, Mom worked there, Grandpa was on the medical school faculty there — Bruin blood. In high school he ignored counseling and applied only to one school — UCLA. (“‘Unacceptable’: Why it […]
UCLA has moved swiftly to create a new chief safety officer position to oversee campus security operations, including the police department, in the wake of what have been called serious lapses in handling protests that culminated in a mob attack on a pro-Palestinian student encampment last week. Chancellor Gene Block announced Sunday that Rick Braziel, […]
The historic campus of UCLA was left “trashed” on Thursday morning in the wake of the dismantling of the pro-Palestinian encampment overnight, KTLA’s Annie Rose Ramos reports. In a chaotic scene, officers from multiple agencies began tearing down the encampment around 3 a.m., several hours after the initial dispersal order was given at 6 p.m. […]
Clashes between rival groups broke out at the UCLA campus overnight into May 1, as a pro-Palestinian encampment came under attack by a pro-Israel group who attempted to tear down its barricades, the LA Times said. Local media reported that firecrackers and fireworks were launched towards the encampment, exploding near groups of tents. This footage […]