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On Thursday morning, hundreds of UCLA students gathered outside Royce Hall with food, water, tents and medical supplies, declaring their encampment in solidarity with Palestine. As this encampment joins other anti-war protests at universities across the nation, UCLA is tasked with upholding the principle of freedom of expression.
The protests were accompanied by calls to respect the pro-Palestinian protesters' rights to free speech and free expression, including a call in an editorial from UCLA's campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin.
This post was updated Jan. 23 at 9:42 p.m. We, UCLA Faculty for Justice in Palestine, are UCLA faculty members bound together by these core principles.
Dear Bruins: It’s been a rough year – and we are not alone in this. The challenges extend far beyond the walls of UCLA or even the United States.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Monroe Gorden Jr. and Interim Vice Provost for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Mitchell Chang shared this message with the campus.