UC Regents approve new guidelines on anti- Semitism

(Editor’s Note: Comments on the UC Regents’ decision may be found below from leaders of the AMCHA Initiative, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, StandWithUs, Hillel International, and the Zionist Organization of America.)

By Kenneth Bandler

Kenneth Bandler
Kenneth Bandler

NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Regents of the University of California (UC) for unanimously approving the “Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance,” a new policy against anti-Semitism on UC campuses. In recent years, Jewish students have been threatened by a wave of anti-Semitic incidents across several UC campuses.

“We commend the UC Regents for taking action against hostility toward Jewish students on UC campuses,” said Janna Weinstein Smith, Director of AJC Los Angeles, and Sarah Persitz, Director of AJC San Francisco.

“We also applaud the Regents for pointing out that some individuals and groups pursuing a virulently anti-Israel agenda on UC campuses have crossed a threshold into discrimination against Jewish students.”

Anti-Semitic incidents have included attempts to oppose candidacies of students seeking to serve in student body governments on account of being Jewish, vandalism of Jewish property with racist insignia, and the use of anti-Semitic tropes and stereotypes against advocates of Israel on campus.

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Bandler is director of media relations for the American Jewish Committee.  Comments intended for publication in the space below must be accompanied by the letter writer’s first and last name and by his/her city and state of residence (city and country for those outside the U.S.)

6 thoughts on “UC Regents approve new guidelines on anti- Semitism”

  1. Editor-San Diego Jewish World

    The following news release was sent by AMCHA Initiative covering the same topic:

    To address a rash of anti-Semitic incidents, largely incited by anti-Zionist activity on campus, the University of California today passed a resolution condemning “anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination” and stating they “have no place at the University of California.”

    “What an important day for Jewish students in California, nationally and internationally,” said AMCHA Initiative director Tammi Rossman Benjamin, who began this fight a year ago and led the effort. “There is absolutely no doubt that anti-Zionism is the driving force behind the alarming rise in anti-Semitism at UC and at schools across the country. Far too often, anti-Israel activists single out, harass, intimidate and even assault Jewish students, regardless of how that student feels about Israel. Far too often, what starts as acceptable, welcomed and appropriate criticism and debate on Israel becomes anti-Zionist discrimination and hate. We applaud the Regents for their leadership and courage today. We offer a special thank you to Regents Working Group chair Eddie Island, members Norm Pattiz and Avi Oved and California legislators Marty Block and Travis Allen who championed this important policy. This is a significant step forward for the well-being of Jewish students at UC, and its impact will be felt nationwide.”

    AMCHA began communicating with UC Regents and community members a year ago after hearing from concerned parents and students about the rapid rise of anti-Semitism at UC. In September the Regents appointed a task force to address the problem. The task force held numerous public meetings and hearings to hear from the community and experts. Last week they released the proposed Statement of Principles Against Intolerance that was approved unanimously today.

    Dozens of UC students and faculty, representatives from Jewish organizations, including, the Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish Community Relations Council, and AMCHA Initiative, and State Assembly Member Travis Allen testified before the Regents today urging them to support the measure. In addition, over the last week, more than 4,000 UC students, faculty, parents, alumni and stakeholders; 60 Jewish and education advocacy groups, including Hillel International, Jewish Federations of North America, and the American Jewish Committee; as well as the California Legislature’s Jewish Caucus and U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman urged the Regents to condemn anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the Statement.

    Criticism of Israel, Israeli policies, settlements, the living conditions of Palestinians or criticism similar to that leveled against any other country is not anti-Zionism. Anti-Zionism is denying Israel’s right to exist and/or calling for its destruction.

    Far too often, what starts as acceptable, welcomed and appropriate criticism and debate on Israel at UC becomes anti- Zionist discrimination and often includes classic, centuries-old anti-Semitic tropes:

    · Jewish UC Santa Cruz student government rep warned to “abstain” from voting on Israel divestment resolution because of his “Jewish agenda.”

    · At UC Santa Barbara, stereotypical and classic anti-Semitic statements about Jews, including Jews control the government and all Jews are rich, were made during a debate to divest from Israel. 


    · A UCLA student wrote, “Fucking Jews. GTFOH with all your Zionist bullshit. Crazy ass fucking troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction. Fucking Jews. GTFOH with your whiny bullshit. Give the Palestinians back their land, go back to Poland or whatever freezer-state you’re from, and realize that faith does not constitute race.”

    · The online promotion of an anti-Israel UC Berkeley SJP event stated, “No to University Coordination and Strategizing with the ADL, JCRC, AJC, StandWithUS, ZOA…” The targeting of Jewish organizations, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Jewish Committee, demonstrates how anti-Israel student groups target and alienate all Jewish groups. 


    · At UC Berkeley, “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber” was scrawled on a bathroom wall in the wake of a student senate campaign to pressure the university to divest from American companies that do business with Israel.

    · At UCLA, “Hitler did nothing wrong” was carved into school property after a contentious BDS campaign.

    · At UC Davis, “grout out the Jews” was scrawled on the university’s Hillel House following a heated BDS debate. 


    · At UC Santa Barbara, flyers blaming Israelis and all Jews for 9/11 were posted on campus. 


    A study, conducted by AMCHA Initiative, of anti-Semitism at more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities in 2015 ranked 5 UC campuses in the top 10% of schools with the most anti-Semitic activity. In fact, 4 of those UC campuses rose to the top 5 worst schools. The study also found the presence of anti-Zionist activities, anti-Zionist student groups and faculty who endorse an academic boycott of Israel were strong predictors of anti-Semitism.

    For months UC Jewish students have reported feeling afraid to tell fellow students they are Jewish, walk to the Hillel house for Sabbath dinner and wear a Jewish star necklace. Many report being bullied, harassed, intimidated and assaulted.

    AMCHA Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to combating, monitoring and documenting anti-Semitism at institutions of higher education in America.

  2. The following was received on the same subject from Richard L. Cravatts, president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East:

    To anyone paying attention it is obvious that the California university system has the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of the campus war against Israel, an unwelcomed situation that has reached such intolerable levels that the UC Regents were forced to take some action. That effort, which resulted in a study entitled the “Final Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance,” attempts to establish guidelines by which any discrimination against any minority group on campus would be identified and censured, but the report specifically focused on the thorny issue of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism as a prevalent and ugly reality throughout the California system.

    The report examined a range of incidents occurring during the 2014-15 academic year, unfortunate transgressions that “included vandalism targeting property associated with Jewish people or Judaism; challenges to the candidacies of Jewish students seeking to assume representative positions within student government; political, intellectual and social dialogue that is anti-Semitic; and social exclusion and stereotyping.”

    In fact, the problem on California campuses, and on campuses across the country, is that pro-Palestinian activists, in their zeal to seek self-affirmation, statehood, and “social justice” for the ever-aggrieved Palestinians, have waged a very caustic cognitive war against Israel and Jews as their tactic in achieving those ends—part of a larger, more invidious intellectual jihad against Israel led by some Western elites and those in the Muslim world who also wish to weaken, and eventually destroy, the Jewish state.

    It turns out that being pro-Palestinian on campuses today does not necessarily mean that one is committed to helping the Palestinians productively nation-build or create a civil society with transparent government, a free press, human rights, and a representative government. Being pro-Palestinian on campuses involves very little which actually benefits or makes more likely the birth of a new Palestinian state, living side by side in peace with Israel. What being pro-Palestinian unfortunately has come to mean is continually denigrating and attacking Israel with a false historical narrative and the misused language of human rights.

    The moral uprightness that anti-Israel activists feel in denouncing what they perceive to be Israel’s racist, apartheid character, combined with its role as what is defined as the illegal occupier of stolen Muslim land, has manifested itself in paroxysms of ideological assaults against Zionism, Israel, and, by extension, Jews in general. And of great concern to those who have observed the invidious byproduct of this radicalism, including the Regents Working Group, is the frequent appearance of anti-Israel sentiment that often rises to the level of raw anti-Semitism, when virulent criticism of Israel bleeds into a darker, more sinister level of hatred –enough to make Jewish students, whether or not they support or care about Israel at all, uncomfortable, unsafe, or hated on their own campuses.

    In fact, a 2014 study commissioned by then-UC President Mark G. Yudof to measure the climate faced by Jewish students found that “Jewish students are confronting significant and difficult climate issues as a result of activities on campus which focus specifically on Israel, its right to exist and its treatment of Palestinians. The anti-Zionism and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movements and other manifestations of anti-Israel sentiment and activity create significant issues through themes and language which portray Israel and, many times, Jews in ways which project hostility, engender a feeling of isolation, and undermine Jewish students’ sense of belonging and engagement with outside communities.”

    If anything, things have gone from bad to worse since that study was written, and this latest report affirmed Yudov’s earlier findings, and stated more specifically, although somewhat controversially, it turns out, that “Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California. Most members of the University community agree with this conclusion and would agree further that the University should strive to create an equal learning environment for all students.”

    That reference to anti-Zionism being henceforth prohibited as acceptable speech or behavior has received immediate and thunderous denunciation, unsurprisingly from those very groups and individuals who have been the worst perpetrators—groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Student Association, Jewish Voice for Peace and other pro-Palestinian students and faculty. And they have been joined in their criticism of the adoption of this language about anti-Zionism by free speech advocates and others who feel that guidelines proscribing speech about a topic that many see as merely political is contrary to the notion of academic free speech, not to mention unconstitutional in seeking to censor people’s speech at all.

    But the guidelines crafted by the Regents were not hobbled together for the purpose of criminalizing or suppressing certain speech. In fact, one of the difficulties pro-Israel groups and activists have had in making the Regents see the necessity of a workable code for gauging what is and what is not anti-Semitism has been the difficulty university officials have themselves had in knowing when pro-Palestinian activism on their campuses has become something else, something more in keeping with the elements of classic anti-Semitism. For that very reason, pro-Israel groups had encouraged the Regents to incorporate in their report the working definition of anti-Semitism used by the U.S. Department of State, which defines anti-Semitism existing by “Using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism to characterize Israel or Israelis; drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis; blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions; applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation; [and] denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and denying Israel the right to exist”—exactly the type of expressed attitudes and accusations regularly seen on California campuses.

    If the UC system adopts the use of the State Department’s working definition of anti-Semitism, and incorporates it into the Principles Against Intolerance, does that mean, as critics of the Principles have suggested, that the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists—supporters of Palestinian solidarity, as they like to call themselves—will be suppressed, censored, or punished? No, it does not. Pro-Palestinian student and faculty can continue to sponsor virulent Israel Apartheid Weeks, promote annual divestment and boycott resolutions against Israel, construct mock apartheid walls and hang blood-strewn Israeli flags, accuse Israel supporters of being racist and genocidal, give tacit support to murder of Jews by apologizing for Palestinian terror and chanting “Intifada, Intifada, long live Intifada,” referencing the murderous Arab campaigns against Israeli civilians, and regularly also chant “Palestine will be free, from the River to the Sea,” meaning that the creation of a new Palestinian state will ideally replace Israel, not exist in peace beside it. They will still enjoy their
    Constitutionally-protected right to speak freely and in whatever manner they choose, even if that speech is corrosive, factually defective, hate-filled, biased, historically-inaccurate, defamatory, even what we normally define as “hate speech.”

    The existence of the Principles and the working definition of anti-Semitism will not prevent anyone from spewing forth whatever intellectual garbage he or she chooses. But, importantly, administrators will finally have the ability to identify instances when pro-Palestinian activism crosses the line into anti-Semitism, and can publicly and immediately condemn that speech and behavior when it occurs, just as they regularly, and appropriately, do if a noose is found on campus, or slurs are made against gay students, or if students wear little sombreros at a tequila-fueled off-campus party, or when, in those rare instances, Muslim students are characterized as supporters of terror.

    And because they have been unable to separate the political critiquing of Israel by pro-Palestinians from the latent and overt anti-Semitism that often reveals itself in this activism, university administrators have been reluctant to identify and condemn anti-Semitic behavior and speech when it occurs. Armed with the State Department’s working definition and the other language in the Principles Against Intolerance, school officials will be able, without moral or ethical qualms, to stand up against intolerance when directed at Jewish students and other pro-Israel members of the campus community, which they have, in the past, been unwilling or unable to feasibly do.

    Pro-Palestinian activists have successfully hijacked the narrative about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict on campuses, but in elevating the Palestinian cause by degrading Israel and its supporters they have unleashed an ideological tsunami replete with virulent language, slanders, blood libels, inversions of history and fact, and, often, as former Harvard president Laurence Summers put it, have unleashed forms of expression that are “anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent.”

    That is the issue here, and why it is necessary and important that, in the effort to promote the Palestinian cause and help them to achieve statehood, another group—Jewish students and other pro-Israel individuals on American campuses—do not become victims themselves in a struggle for another group’s self-determination—something that leaders on California campuses, at least, can now help prevent from taking place.

  3. StandWithUs sent these comments about the UC Regents decision:

    StandWithUs applauds the University of California (UC) Board of Regents for voting unanimously to adopt a new and much improved version of their “Principles Against Intolerance,” originally proposed in September, 2015. The new version shows that the Regents are truly committed to addressing anti-Semitism, as well as other forms of bigotry within the UC system.

    The Regents also passed an amendment to the Final Report, stating that, “Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitic forms of Anti-Zionism, and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.” While this is less unequivocal than the previous language, it is a major step forward in educating the UC community about the nuanced forms of anti-Semitism Jewish students face today.

    The document also covers disruptions of speakers, vandalism, discrimination within student government, and other forms of bigotry that Jewish students and others have unfortunately confronted in recent years.

    According to StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein, “denying Israel’s right to exist and opposing the rights of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland is racism, pure and simple. I commend the Regents for hearing the voices of Jewish students and recognizing that anti-Semitism manifests itself in relation to Israel far too often within the UC system.”

    “As someone who graduated from a UC school, I’m incredibly proud of UC students who stood up for their rights and their community,” said Max Samarov, StandWithUs Director of Research & Campus Strategy. “It is not always easy to balance protecting Jews and other minority groups from racism with upholding the 1st amendment and academic freedom, but I believe the Regents were able to do that successfully.”

    This victory against bigotry represents a major defeat for anti-Israel lobbying groups, which engaged in cynical attempts to stifle grassroots activism by Jewish students. These groups focused their arguments on protecting free speech and academic freedom, despite the fact that they routinely act in direct opposition to these critical values. They have violated free speech by shouting down speakers they disagree with and undermined academic freedom by pushing for academic boycotts against Israelis.This strongly suggests that what these groups are really seeking to protect are not any universal values, but rather their narrow political interests.

    Jewish students and their allies worked for months to persuade university leaders to recognize and take action against the many forms of racism they face on campus. The Regents responded with their Final Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance, acknowledging that, “opposition to Zionism often is expressed in ways that are not simply statements of disagreement over politics and policy, but also assertions of prejudice and intolerance toward Jewish people and culture.”

    StandWithUs congratulates UC students on their inspiring activism which led to this groundbreaking victory. We will continue to work with Hillel, the AMCHA Initiative, the Brandeis Center, and all 50 organization that partnered to support students in their efforts to overcome all forms of racism within the UC System.

    Noa Raman, StandWithUs pacific-Northwest Campus Coordinator addressed the UC Regents during the Public Comments section:

    Hello, my name is Noa Raman. I speak before you today as an American-Israeli Jew, a California resident, and the current Pacific Northwest Campus Coordinator at StandWithUs. Working with UC students on a day-to-day basis I know first hand the impact and pervasiveness of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism within the UC system.

    I thank you for bringing the conversation about Anti-Semitism and all other forms of identity based hatred to the for front of our campus consciousness.

    From swastikas being keyed on cars and spray-painted on Jewish fraternities, to a pro-divestment student senator calling for Israel’s demise, to Jews being overtly discriminated against in student government because of their identity, to the most recent attempt to disrupt an Israeli diplomat speaking at UC Davis, it is clear that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are linked and have no place on UC campuses.

    I applaud the working group for crafting a strong policy which successfully balances the crucial fight against all forms of bigotry in the UC system with upholding free speech and academic freedom. I urge you to recognize the experiences of Jewish students and other targeted communities on campus, and fully endorse the Principles of Tolerance.

  4. Hillel International issued the following news release:

    Hillel International, the largest Jewish student organization in the world, expresses its gratitude to the University of California Board of Regents for approving a new policy Thursday expressly stating that “anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.”

    “The University of California Regents have taken an important step in ensuring the safety of Jewish students on all California campuses,” said Eric D. Fingerhut, President and CEO of Hillel International. “There are lines that cannot be crossed on American campuses, and anti-Semitism should be one of them.”

    “There is an undeniable link in the UC between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist activities,” said Rabbi Aaron Lerner, executive director of Hillel at UCLA. “I want to thank the UC Regents for their year-long effort to better understand, and combat, anti-Semitism in the UC. They spent an enormous amount of time listening to a wide variety of constituents, including Hillel’s staff and students.”

    “West Coast schools have been at the forefront of hostile, undemocratic forms of activism for years. Free speech and free expression are absolutes on college campuses, but the Principles Against Intolerance condemn conduct that inhibits the free exchange of ideas and has negatively affected Jewish life on campus,” said Ollie Benn, executive director of San Francisco Hillel.

    Hillel International joined several other major Jewish organizations in calling on the Regents to approve the measure. “Bigotry of any kind has no place at elite institutions of higher learning like the University of California. But such intolerance exists, and pretending otherwise will not make the problem go away.”

  5. Editor-San Diego Jewish World

    On March 25, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) distributed the following letter from David Kadosh, its executive director for the West Coast:

    Dear Members ZOA National Board, Regions, Special Friends:

    It is with great pleasure and pride that I write to inform you of yesterday’s victory in the fight to combat anti-Semitism on America’s college campuses. The University of California (UC) Board of Regents which oversees 10 UC campuses and nearly 240,000 students, voted unanimously to adopt a statement of Principles Against Intolerance which, for the first time, acknowledged that certain forms of anti-Israel activity and rhetoric cross the line into anti-Semitism and contribute to a hostile atmosphere for Jewish and pro-Israel students.

    The document included the strong statement by the Regents that “anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism, and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.” This statement can be used to counter the anti-Semitic demonization, delegitimization, and the impossible double standard being levied against Israel and its supporters on college campuses across the country. This is truly a historic moment.

    The ZOA has been working closely with our regional partners to consistently lobby the UC Regents to identify the extreme anti-Semitism that Jewish and pro-Israel students are facing and to take action against the perpetrators. ZOA’s chapter in the Western region collaborated with the ZOA Center for Law and Justice to develop statements and provide information to the UC Regents, in addition to working with the ZOA Campus Department to identify specific incidents college students have been facing.
    The ZOA has been working closely with our regional partners to consistently lobby the UC Regents to identify the extreme anti-Semitism that Jewish and pro-Israel students are facing and to take action against the perpetrators.

    The lobbying effort lasted over a year and was bitterly contested by the anti-Semitic, hate groups so called Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. The groups opposing our efforts argued against the acknowledgement that certain anti-Israel activity and rhetoric constitutes hate speech which violates university policies and threatens the well-being of students supporting Israel. These groups cited the First Amendment of the US Constitution which protects speech, including hate speech, and argued that a statement identifying the insidious correlation taking place would violate their rights to criticize Israel and advocate on Palestinian issues.

    Despite the tremendous backlash against our efforts, the UC Regents did finally recognize that anti-Zionism, specifically the denial of Jewish rights to self-determination and their own state in their historic homeland and the targeting of student Israel supporters because of their beliefs, is anti-Semitic. The Regents also acknowledged that anti-Israel events, including the contentious Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns, contribute to an atmosphere of hostility on campus which incites individuals to commit hate crimes against and target Jewish students.

    Going into the meeting, the ZOA knew that the Regents would most likely adopt the full statement, including the language regarding anti-Zionism. The ZOA statement and testimony at the meeting therefore thanked the Regents and focused instead on the inevitable problems which still need to be addressed; most importantly, the issue of enforcement.

    The ZOA chose to highlight an incident which took place at UC Berkeley in the midst of the Regents’ efforts to address the rise in anti-Semitism. Last October, the SJP held an anti-Israel rally where they encouraged the crowd to join in their chanting “Long Live the Intifada” meaning the support of murdering and maiming Jews. Within minutes, a Jewish student holding a pro-Israel sign was verbally and physically assaulted. The Jewish student filed a harassment complaint. The ZOA wrote twice to UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Dirks about the attack. Then ZOA published two opeds in the San Francisco Jewish paper. We urged him to publicly condemn the SJP’s incitement of violence as well as the attack itself. We also urged him to enforce Berkeley’s rules and hold the SJP wrongdoers accountable. Chancellor Dirks did not take either step.

    Recently, the Jewish student was informed that his complaint was dismissed because school officials went to the SJP and not surprisingly, the SJP couldn’t identify the student’s attacker. Only weeks after refusing to issue a statement about the violence against a Jewish student, Chancellor Dirks and two other senior administrators issued exactly such a statement condemning alleged potential threats against Muslim students. The statement urged people to come forward with any information. In the statement, the Chancellor and his colleagues specifically stated that they felt a genuine responsibility to confront prejudice and hatred against Muslim students. This example demonstrates the unfair and troubling double standard being applied to Jewish students. While, UC Regents should rightly be commended for their efforts in better identifying how anti-Semitism is manifesting itself on their campuses, they should also ensure that the new policies against intolerance are equitably and universally enforced.

    Regent Davis offered to propose amendments to the statement of Principles Against Intolerance which would clarify how the policies will be enforced. Student Regent Avi Oved, an Israeli American and member of the AEPi Jewish fraternity who has been working diligently to address anti-Semitism, proposed a reporting mechanism requiring UC campuses to submit bi-monthly reports to the Regents on all bias and hate incidents that took place within the previous period, including what, if any, action was taken to address and rectify the incidents.

    While ZOA, and our partners, have achieved a significant victory, the fight to guarantee enforcement and ensure Jewish students and Israel supporters are being adequately protected from discrimination and harassment will continue.

  6. Editor-San Diego Jewish World

    State Senator Marty Block, D-San Diego, released a copy of a letter he sent as chairman of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, to the UC Regents before their vote.

    Dear President Napolitano and Regents,
    The California Legislative Jewish Caucus strongly supports the Final Report of the Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance dated January 22, 2016. We commend Regent Island and the working group for a job very well done. We urge the adoption of this report at the March 23, 2016, meeting of the full Board.

    The Caucus particularly appreciates the working groups’ Contextual Statement that acknowledges that “opposition to Zionism often is expressed in ways that are not simply statements of disagreement over politics and policy, but also assertions of prejudice and intolerance toward Jewish people and culture.” The Contextual Statement further asserts that “anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California” and that “most members of the university community agree with this conclusion”.

    Paragraph C of the Principles Against Intolerance incorporates these findings into policy, proclaiming that “Anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination have no place in the University. The Regents call on University leaders actively to challenge anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination when and wherever they emerge within the University community.”

    The California Legislative Jewish Caucus trusts that University of California campus-based administrators will rise to the challenge presented by this report and the proposed Regent’s Policy and will create a more welcoming environment at each of the University of California campuses for all students.

    Please contact the Caucus with any questions or concerns, or if any further legislative support is desired.

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