The groups have been identified as Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine.
These groups, which often express outright pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic views, are no longer able to hold on-campus meetings, apply for funding, or formally associate themselves with UCLA, according to an announcement from Chancellor Julio Frenk. These restrictions will remain in place while university officials investigate the groups’ misconduct.
Frenk issued a campus update on February 12 detailing the student organizations’ crimes against the university’s Jewish employee.
“On February 5, 2025, individuals affiliated with the student groups harassed Mr. Sures and members of his family outside his home. Individuals surrounded the vehicle of a Sures family member and prevented that family member’s free movement. Individuals pounded on drums, chanting and holding signs with threatening messages such as ‘Jonathan Sures you will pay, until you see your final day.’ Individuals vandalized the Sures home by applying red-colored handprints to the outer walls of the home and hung banners on the property’s hedges,” the chancellor wrote.
“We have a long list of SJP violations of university rules and regulations that we have been sharing with the administration,” Stein said, pointing out that the radical group’s actions amount to “intimidation, harassment, and inflammatory disinformation.”
The Federated University Police Officers’ Association, the union that represents UCLA law enforcement. has called on school officials “to demand prosecution” of students for any illegal conduct, asserting that UCLA’s response to this conduct should be severe enough to deter future incidents.
“Universities cannot allow lawlessness under the guise of activism,” said Wade Stern, the union’s president.
This interim suspension comes as the radical pro-Palestine left has been terrorizing college campuses for over a year since the October 7 terrorist attacks — intimidating Jewish students and faculty, committing vandalism, and even taking over the campuses to the point where classes had to be canceled.
The problem has gotten so bad that numerous other universities have shut down their own chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. UC Santa Cruz banned the group until 2026, UC Irvine banned it until 2029, and UC San Diego did not renew the group’s official status for the current schoolyear.
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