UCLA: Drop All Disciplinary Cases Against Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters

In 2024, after a wave of student actions protesting UCLA’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the UCLA administration charged over 175 pro-Palestinian students with student conduct violations. As recently as November 2025, UC police arrests at a protest triggered yet another group of disciplinary charges.

Some of the students charged in 2024 have not even had a hearing nearly 2 years later — forcing them to put their lives on hold, threatening their ability to afford basic needs, and chilling their First Amendment-protected speech on campus. Almost no students charged with conduct violations in 2025 have had hearings.

Students who have had hearings are speaking out against the UCLA administration’s lack of due process, inconsistent and uneven punishments, secret and vague evidence, and tendency to invent new student conduct policies to justify charges after the fact.

Throughout these drawn-out disciplinary processes — which are an egregious use of public resources amidst a budget crisis for the UC system — students are reliving traumatic experiences of Zionist doxing and harassment, as well as extreme vigilante violence by Zionist attackers and assault by UC police at the spring 2024 encampment.

“UCLA’s year-long disciplinary process triggered painful and vivid flashbacks of the Zionist and police violence I endured during the 2024 encampment — and the ongoing violence faced by my people and loved ones in Palestine,” said Areej, a Palestinian student whose disciplinary process lasted 13 months.

Last summer, UCLA became the first public university attacked by the Trump administration, which fined the $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism, i.e. insufficiently punishing Palestine protesters. When the University of California system failed to legally challenge Trump’s fine, UC unions representing faculty, staff, and students successfully sued the Trump administration themselves.

Palestine Legal continues to actively work on these discipline cases.

Demand UCLA drop all disciplinary cases against pro-Palestinian students by emailing and calling the administration at bit.ly/UCLAdropcases.