Newsom pushes California universities to boost campus safety as protests rage over Mideast war
Politico
Blake Jones
November 14, 2023
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom waded into the bitter disputes between student groups over the Israel-Hamas war that have roiled college campuses in California, insisting that education leaders take more decisive action to quell related acts of hate.
The governor in a letter Monday pressed California university system heads to enforce campus safety policies and “cultivate spaces for affinity and dialogue” amid rising antisemitism and Islamophobia. He noted that “students have been physically assaulted for voicing support for Israel and targeted because of a Jewish, Arab, or Muslim identity.”
“This is unacceptable and demands action,” Newsom wrote in the letter, first reported here. He issued the call to the leaders of the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges but did not prescribe what exactly their responses should entail.
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