{"id":312120,"date":"2026-02-27T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:32:10","slug":"the-first-antisemitism-lawsuit-against-a-u-s-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312120\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Antisemitism Lawsuit Against a U.S. State"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coalition of Jewish parents and civil rights organizations have filed the first antisemitism lawsuit<\/a> against a U.S. state, accusing the California government of failing to protect Jewish students from a surge of antisemitic harassment, violence, and propaganda in the state\u2019s public schools. The filing accuses the state of offering only \u201ctoothless remedies\u201d to the scourge of antisemitism through a \u201cglacial and opaque administrative process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Israel-advocacy group StandWithUs on behalf of several Jewish families. Defendants include a number of state agencies, among them the California Department of Education.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit comes more than two years after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, which the Brandeis Center alleges triggered an unprecedented wave of antisemitic incidents in California\u2019s schools that has never been adequately addressed. In 2024, the most recent year for which data is available, antisemitic incidents reached their highest-ever recorded levels<\/a> in the United States, with violent assaults on Jewish people increasing 21 percent compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n

California is one of the few states with a constitutional provision explicitly guaranteeing an equitable and free education, according to Marci Lerner Miller, the director of legal investigations with the Brandeis Center. The lawsuit explicitly cites this provision in arguing that pervasive antisemitism in California\u2019s public schools has \u201cdeprived [Jewish students] of equal access to educational benefits and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coalition of Jewish parents and civil rights organizations have filed the first antisemitism lawsuit against a U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-312120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}