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A freed Israeli hostage spoke at UCLA without incident. Then the student government weighed in.

April 28, 2026David Leibermann

An event at the University of California, Los Angeles featuring the freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov has become the latest flashpoint in campus dialogue over Israel, after the university’s student government issued a statement condemning the talk. The event itself went off without disruption. But the school’s Undergraduate Students Associated Council issued a letter […]

California Jewish groups say Trump $1B demand of UCLA ‘does not make Jewish students safer’

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025Sara Wood

A coalition of California’s leading Jewish groups has come out against the Trump administration’s recent demand that the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1 billion to resolve federal antisemitism allegations. The proposed $1 billion settlement “does not make Jewish students safer,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California argued Tuesday. JPAC’s statement comes days […]