Congress investigating UCLA over treatment of Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests

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A congressional education committee is calling on the university to turn over documents regarding an 'inadequate response to antisemitism and failure to protect Jewish students' amid violent clashes on campus.

A congressional education committee has chastised

since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7. The conservative congresswoman is also seeking texts and other communications from staff, police and the regents, giving May 21 as the deadline for delivery. The committee investigation is focusing on the activities and handling of a pro-Palestinian encampment that sat outside Royce Hall for two weeks until police dismantled and arrested more than 200 people.

's decision to allow it as well as a series of incidents Foxx characterized as antisemitic. She also criticized . The woman who was kicked, who did not wish to be identified, told The Times she had been shoved to the ground by another demonstrator while attempting to retrieve her fallen Israeli flag during a pro-Israel rally near a group organized in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Foxx also documented what she characterized as an antisemitic trope in which an image of Block was 'displayed at the encampment featured him with horns and red eyes.

 

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