UCLA to pay more than $ 6 million to settle the trial for pro-Palestinian demonstrations

The University of California of Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it had reached a regulation in a discrimination trial brought by Jewish students and a member of the faculty, agreeing to pay more than $ 6 million.

The complainants, who brought a trial in June 2024, accused the university of not acting when pro-Palestinian demonstrators installed camps last spring. They said that the protest areas were inaccessible to Jewish students and were equivalent to the complainants calling “Jewish exclusion zones”. Although the UCLA denied any reprehensible act, he agreed to settle fully, with $ 50,000 of payment to each of the complainants in addition to 2.33 million dollars of donations to organizations that fight against anti -Semitism.

“We are satisfied with the terms of today’s regulation. The injunction and other terms that UCLA has agreed to demonstrate real progress in the fight against anti -Semitism,” the parties said in a joint statement.

In the regulations, the UCLA agreed to ensure that Jewish students and teachers are not excluded from the campus programs, activities or areas. The eight organizations to which the school has agreed to make a donation including Hillel to the UCLA, the academic commitment network and the anti-diploma league, the regulation said. In addition, the school said that it would allocate $ 320,000 for its initiative to combat anti -Semitism, according to a press release concerning the regulations.

“Anti -Semitism, harassment and other forms of intimidation are contrary to our values and do not have their place at the University of California,” said the president of the Board of Directors of the UC, Janet Reilly. “We were clear about where we are stranded, and we are committed to getting better from the front.”

Yitzchok Frankel, a student and seeker of the UCLA in the case, said in a statement that it was disappointed with the initial actions of the school, the regulations were a positive development.

“The trial of the court of today brings back justice on our campus and ensures that the Jews will be safe and will be treated again too,” he said.

The regulations occur more than a year after the students organized pro-Palestinian demonstrations in universities across the country, with tent camps established in many campuses. At the UCLA, the demonstrators called on the school to depart from companies that have links with Israel with their own camp at the end of April 2024. Attacked counter-demonstrators The camp, leading to violent clashes. Police were finally called and more than 200 people were arrested.

Months later, the school implemented a “Zero tolerance” policyProhibiting camps, masks that hide identities and all protests that block the tracks.

Prosecutions were also filed by demonstrators and pro-Palestinian supporters. The UCLA was struck by a trial in October, Accusing him of removing anti-war voices and commanding students and teachers demonstrators to be arrested illegally. The prosecution, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, also accused the school of having violated the rights to freedom of expression. The case is still in pleidability.

Columbia University last week said he would pay $ 200 million in the Trump administration to restore funding that had been reduced to allegations that have violated anti-discrimination laws. In March, the administration said that it canceled $ 400 million in subsidies to the Ivy League institution, accusing it of “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students”.

Earlier this month, Barnard College in Manhattan, The affiliate of a woman entirely of women from Columbia University, also settled a trial which accused the school of not having fought sufficiently against anti -Semitism on the campus. Among the conditions he had accepted, the school said that it would prohibit masks during demonstrations and that it would refuse to meet or negotiate with a coalition of groups of pro-Palestinian students.

The settlement immediately aroused criticism from its students and teachers. Nara Milanich, a professor of history of Barnard who is Jewish, told CNN that the settlement seems to “assimilate the criticism of Israel to anti -Semitism”.

“This is a problem for critical thinking and academic freedom,” she said.