{"id":334207,"date":"2026-05-27T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:48:19","slug":"office-of-public-affairs-justice-department-sues-university-of-california-for-antisemitic-hostile-educational-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334207\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Sues University of California for Antisemitic Hostile Educational Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1442381\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lawsuit<\/a> against the University of California for its deliberate indifference to race and national origin discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students at its University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this year, we sued UCLA for subjecting its Jewish and Israeli employees to an antisemitic hostile work environment,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cNow, the Department of Justice calls UCLA to account for its toleration of the equally appalling hostile educational environment against its Jewish and Israeli students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversities have an obligation to maintain safe and inclusive campuses for all students,\u201d said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California. \u201cUniversities that violate our nation\u2019s civil rights laws by repeatedly failing to shield Jewish students from antisemitism will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, antisemitic hatred against UCLA\u2019s Jewish and Israeli students reached a point where students were physically assaulted, injured, excluded from campus, and deprived of educational opportunities because of their perceived Jewish or Israeli heritage. As alleged in the United States\u2019 complaint, UCLA violated Title VI through its deliberate indifference to this pervasive on-campus antisemitism. UCLA also breached its funding contracts and grants with the United States by certifying the school\u2019s compliance with its Title VI duties to protect all students from unlawful discrimination while allowing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students to infect its campus.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA\u2019s tolerance of antisemitism reached a flash point in April 2024 when masked demonstrators erected an encampment outside of Royce Hall and slapped, kicked, beat with sticks, doused with pepper spray, and knocked unconscious Jewish and Israeli students. During this time, occupiers formed \u201chuman phalanxes\u201d to block Jewish and Israeli students from entering academic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>This lawsuit \u2014 filed in the Central District of California \u2014 stems from the Department\u2019s investigation into reports of antisemitic incidents against students on UCLA\u2019s campus and written findings concluding, in part, that UCLA failed to fulfill its legal obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in responding to those incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against the University of California for its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-334207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}