LOS ANGELES — Dueling lawsuits against UCLA each describe a rise in antisemitic and anti-Palestinian bias since protests erupted on campus last year over the Israel-Hamas war.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California says UCLA and the University of California Board of Regents, which oversees the UC system, suppressed antiwar voices and ordered students and faculty protesters arrested unlawfully.
A separate lawsuit alleging UCLA failed to stop antisemitism in a so-called Jewish exclusion zone protest area, which was originally filed in June, was amended Tuesday to include details about how the plaintiffs, three students and a professor, were personally affected by the demonstrations.
Sometimes violent protests and counterprotests roiled the campus last spring as the war in Gaza dragged on after it erupted on Oct. 7, 2023.
The protests put college administrators on a tightrope as they tried…
