UCLA Finally Suspends SJP After Trump Antisemitism Task Force Launch

by Daniel Greenfield (Front Page Magazine)

Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus terrorist organization that celebrated the Oct 7 attacks, had its chapter at UCLA assault and block Jewish students and community members. SJP did this with the active support of UCLA faculty, officials and the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors which paid for the legal fees of their thugs, not to mention the LA Times and the national media.

UCLA failed to take any meaningful action against the campus terror group. That just changed.

Now it might have been SJP along with other terrorist supporters showing up at the home of a UC regent to harass him, threaten his wife and vandalize his property.

Chancellor Frenk’s official statement of an ‘interim suspension’ for SJP mentions that particular incident.

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.

Frenk asserts that, “no one should ever fear for their safety. Without the basic feeling of safety, humans cannot learn, teach, work and live — much less thrive and flourish. This is true no matter what group you are a member of — or which identities you hold. There is no place for violence in our Bruin community.”

That’s a little late to the party after Jewish students and community members were violently assaulted on campus during the ‘encampment’ period. (Not to mention minor matters like vandalism.)

I’m sure he takes the harassment of a regent more seriously than a Jewish female student being knocked unconscious on campus during the encampment.

But the Trump admin’s new task force likely has something to do with it too.

The US Justice Department announced on Monday the launch of a task force to combat antisemitism in schools and college campuses.

Leo Terrell, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who is also set to lead the task force, noted, “Antisemitism in any environment is repugnant to this Nation’s ideals.”

He added, “The Department takes seriously our responsibility to eradicate this hatred wherever it is found. The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools.”

The move followed US President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order on Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,” according to the department.

Leo Terrell has been very blunt about UCLA’s malfeasance.

FOX NEWS HOST: Yeah, to your point, we all remember what we saw on college campuses across the country, from Columbia University to UCLA. I believe we have the video where Jewish students were literally barred from going to class by pro-Palestinian protesters, in some cases pro-Hamas protesters. There you go.

Look at that. No one seemed to be doing anything about it. And we heard very little from the last administration on why this was so wrong.

So how is this going to change now?

TERRELL: Well, you heard crickets from the last administration. And in those protests, I was embarrassed to see my law school, UCLA, allow this type of harassment going on. And Columbia University, how it’s going to stop is very simple.

We’re going to cut off their funding. We’re going to take criminal activity against those protesters. We’re going to alert these blue cities that allow this.

The message is getting out.

The interim suspension of SJP is mostly meaningless. A face-saving gesture for everyone involved and a feint to keep the task force away, But that shows UC is afraid. And that’s a good start.