IRVINE, California (Press Release) — The StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department represented a Jewish student at UC Irvine (UCI) who picked up a piece of cardboard depicting a hooknose, religious Jew holding a bloody knife over the Palestinian flag at an encampment.
An administrator falsely charged him with theft and failing to identify himself, while nearby protestors unlawfully occupied university property with impunity.
UCI required the student to write an essay admitting guilt to theft in order to receive his diploma – which would have impacted his future career.
StandWithUs challenged the sanction based on the constitutional right against self-incrimination, and by pointing out that the university was holding Jewish students to standards of conduct that it waives for anti-Israel protestors. The Washington Examiner made it public.
As a result, UCI reduced the sanction, and the student graduated.
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