Characterizing the UCLA campus as, “...a hostile and unsafe environment for students, Jewish and non-Jewish, who choose not to support the BDS movement, let alone support the State of Israel,” UCLA law student and Graduate Students Association (GSA) president Milan Chatterjee has left the university, choosing to complete his law school education at New York University.
Chaterjee, who is not Jewish, has endured months of non-stop, well-documented harassment at the hands of BDS-affiliated organizations and students. Long Beach Jewish Life believes that it is important to not only understand the nature of the anti-Israel movement on college campuses, but to also understand how close to home this ongoing battle is being waged. Mr. Chatterjee has described his experiences of the past several months in greater detail and more accurately than any third-party report might, so we have chosen to reprint his letter to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in its entirety:
Dear Chancellor Block,
I write to inform you that I have decided to complete the final year of my UCLA School of Law program at a different institution. The hostile and unsafe campus environment I am facing at UCLA has left me with no choice but to move away from this university at great additional expense to me and my family.
Since November 2015, I have been relentlessly attacked, bullied and
President of UCLA Graduate Students Association Leaves School Due to BDS Harassment