(JEWISH GROUP) UCLA to pay $6.45 million to settle suit by Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests

[Mosby]

UCLA has agreed to pay $6.45 million to settle a lawsuit brought by three Jewish students and a medical school professor who alleged the university violated their civil rights and enabled antisemitic actions during a pro-Palestinian campus encampment hit with violence in spring 2024.

Each plaintiff will receive $50,000. About $2.3 million will be donated to eight groups that work with Jewish communities or issues. Another $320,000 will be directed to a UCLA initiative to combat antisemitism, and the rest of the funds will go toward the legal fees.

As part the deal, UCLA has also agreed that it is “prohibited from knowingly allowing or facilitating the exclusion of Jewish students, faculty, and/or staff from ordinarily available portions of UCLA’s programs, activities, and/or campus areas.” This provision extends to any actions taken on campus, including measures to de-escalate tensions during a protest, for instance, and it includes “exclusion ... based on religious beliefs concerning the Jewish state of Israel.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-29/ucla-settles-lawsuit-jewish-students

Judge Mark Scarsi in his 16 page order:

"In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,”

[lostincalifornia]

1. and I remember at the time there were a good number of folks blaming the Jews, when the fact was

most of the Jewish students were just trying to get to their classes, and simply being harassed because they were Jewish.

[lapucelle]

2. What a scathing indictment from the judge.

"In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,”

Shame.

[SunSeeker]

3. Yup. And for what? Did it help anyone in Gaza? Hell no.

In fact, it probably helped get Trump elected.