UCLA's student newspaper, the Daily Bruin, is reporting this week that the Office of Student Conduct is recommending an indefinite ban on Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and a 4-year suspension of Graduate Students for Palestine. This comes after a February incident in which both groups led a protest outside the Brentwood home of a UC regent and left red handprints on his garage door.
This is encouraging news, but these university suspensions of SJP need to be made permanent. Time and time again, they have crossed the line from legitimate protest into vandalism, disruption, violence, and anti-Semitic agitation.
Privacy rules preclude universities from making public any individual student disciplinary actions. I can only hope that the students who were involved in the February incident have been expelled.
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