The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has agreed to a $6 million settlement following allegations of anti-Israel bias and the creation of a ‘Jew Exclusion Zone’ on campus. The lawsuit, filed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, alleges that UCLA facilitated an antisemitic environment by allowing a segment of the campus to become a space where anti-Israel protesters excluded Jewish students. The university faced scrutiny over its handling of these protests, which led to reports that Jewish students were physically blocked from accessing certain areas of the campus.
According to the settlement agreement, the university is required to pay more than $6.13 million to the plaintiffs, a group including Jewish students and faculty members who claimed that UCLA’s response to anti-Israel protests allowed antisemitic practices to flourish. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mary Osako, the vice chancellor for strategic communications at UCLA, stated that the university had taken