A group of 35 pro-Palestinian students, faculty members, legal observers, journalists and activists filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles over its handling of last year’s demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war.

Plaintiffs in the suit allege they experienced serious physical and verbal attacks by both police and counterprotesters at a “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” in April 2024.

Nearly a year after a mob attacked UCLA students and faculty who formed an encampment protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, participants in that encampment are suing senior officials from the University of California and UCLA,