The politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict keep seeping into campus life at the University of California.
In 2010, a group of Muslim student protesters disrupted a UC Irvine speech by the Israeli ambassador and later faced school discipline and criminal prosecution that their defenders considered overly harsh.
Last year, the UCLA student government debated whether representatives who took free trips to Israel sponsored by Jewish groups should face sanctions.
Over the past year, several UC student governments have voted, after bruising debates, to urge the UC system to sell off stocks in companies that do business with Israel’s military.
And provocative posters and graffiti linked to the Mideast debate have shown up on some campuses, offending Muslim and Jewish students.
Now UCLA is coping with the aftermath of an incident in which several student government leaders questioned a student’s eligibility for a campus judicial panel because she is Jewish.
Originally published in the Los Angeles Times