Resource: Frankel v. Regents of the University of California

In the wake of the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, anti-Jewish protests emerged on college campuses nationwide. At UCLA, activists first set up an encampment in the heart of campus where they enforced a “Jew Exclusion Zone,” segregating Jewish students and faculty and preventing them from going to their classes, accessing the library, or participating in routine campus social life. Meanwhile, UCLA’s administration ordered police to stand down and step aside and even assigned security officers to keep those who would not agree to disavow Israel’s right to exist away from the area. Those same activists continued to set up encampments and occupy buildings, and the antisemitic chaos has continued on campus in the 2024-25 academic year. Three Jewish UCLA students and a Jewish UCLA professor are asking a federal court to hold the university accountable for allowing the antisemitic encampments and facilitating antisemitism on campus.