A Los Angeles federal district Tuesday ordered the University of California, Los Angeles, to stop allowing and assisting antisemitic agitators to ban Jews from large parts of UCLA’s campus.
In the wake of the horrifying attack in Israel on Oct. 7, anti-Israel activists on campus set up barricades in the center of campus that blocked access to critical educational infrastructure on campus.
In a lawsuit filed by Becket Law and co-counsel Clement & Murphy PLLC, the religious liberty firm accused UCLA of "aiding and abetting" an antisemetic culture, including what effectively became a "Jew Exclusion Zone" on campus, "segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus."
"To enter the Jew Exclusion Zone, a person had to make a statement pledging their allegiance to the activists' views and have someone within the encampment ‘vouch’ for the individual's fidelity to the activists' cause," the lawsuit said. "[T]he practical effect was to deny the overwhelming majority of Jews access to the heart of the campus."
