{"id":459861,"date":"2026-09-10T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:02:17","slug":"uc-faculty-council-calls-for-regents-resignation-over-failure-to-condemn-islamaphobic-remarks-uc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459861\/","title":{"rendered":"UC faculty council calls for regent\u2019s resignation over failure to condemn Islamaphobic remarks | UC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UC Ethnic Studies Council is calling for UC Regent Jay Sures\u2019 resignation after he spoke at an event where another speaker made Islamophobic remarks.<\/p>\n

At the Jewish American Summit on Aug. 30, Mosab Hassan Yousef, an author and former Israeli spy, made a number of comments attacking Muslim Americans, including telling them to \u201cget the f— out of the United States. Go back to the s—holes where you came from.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a social media statement released Monday, the UC Ethnic Studies Council \u2014 which represents almost 700 ethnic studies faculty across the UC system \u2014 criticized Sures for staying silent about Yousef\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

Other prominent politicians like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff have condemned Yousef\u2019s remarks on social media.<\/p>\n

The council said Sures\u2019 silence on the remarks was \u201cnot an isolated concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe contextualize Sures\u2019s failure to speak out against Mosab Hassan Yousef\u2019s call to ethnically cleanse Muslims from the United States within Sures\u2019s long history of targeting students and faculty who have stood up for the Palestinian right to life and his strategic silence, which amounts to sanctioning violence when it comes to structural discrimination and state violence against Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians,\u201d said Christine Hong, a professor of critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz and member of the UC Ethnic Studies Council, in an email.<\/p>\n

Hong alleges Sures violated UC Regents Policy 4400, which affirms the UC\u2019s commitment to diversity, inclusion and serving \u201call parts of the community equitably.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Council previously called for Sures\u2019 resignation in 2023 after controversy between the faculty group and Sures over the UC system\u2019s response to Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.<\/p>\n

Additionally, after a pro-Palestinian protest in front of Sures\u2019 home last year, he unsuccessfully filed a restraining order against a UCLA graduate student. Sures was later ordered to pay the student\u2019s legal fees.<\/p>\n

Sures also rebuked<\/a> Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine for hosting a pro-Palestinian activist previously convicted in an Israeli car bombing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just really shows that he\u2019s not just comfortable being around people making these bigoted remarks, he\u2019s actively doing the bigotry himself, right? He\u2019s an active proponent of this bigotry against Muslim students, against pro-Palestinian students,\u201d said a member of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. \u201cThat\u2019s not somebody that should be in any position of power when clearly they hold such bigotry in their hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hong says the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council is planning to release a petition calling for Sures to resign.<\/p>\n

The UC Office of the President did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UC Ethnic Studies Council is calling for UC Regent Jay Sures\u2019 resignation after he spoke at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9984,181341,181342,37487,181338,181339,47,13825,181340,143,145,144,3783,181343,181344,181337,30647,37295,40229,1092,435],"class_list":["post-459861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-adam-schiff","tag-christine-hong","tag-critical-race-and-ethnic-studies","tag-israeli","tag-jay-sures","tag-jewish-american-summit","tag-los-angeles","tag-mayor-karen-bass","tag-mosab-hassan-yousef","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-palestine","tag-uc-berkeley-law-students-for-justice-in-palestine","tag-uc-berkeley-students-for-justice-in-palestine","tag-uc-ethnic-council","tag-uc-office-of-the-president","tag-uc-regents","tag-uc-santa-cruz","tag-ucla","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459861","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=459861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}