Judge Dismisses Jewish Students' Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Sf State University

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)

A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit in which it claims to be a victim of fraud.

U.S. Judge William Orrick District of San Francisco said the lawsuit did not allege adequate facts to support the claim of discrimination and hostility toward Jewish students and Israeli descent.

He dismissed the case in a 41-page ruling filed late Monday.

The judge wrote, "I understand that these plaintiffs, and some other members of the Jewish or Israeli community, or SFSU, feel deeply that SFSU has not done enough to curtail others' anti-Semitic behaviors and to foster a better environment for Jewish and pro-Israeli students. "

But it says the lawsuits in the lawsuit "do not adequate allege a violation of federal anti-discrimination laws so that it can be imposed on SFSU, its administrators, or its faculty."

The lawsuit was the third version of a case originally filed by six writers and current students in June 2017.

Orrick dismissed the second version in March of this year for similar reasons of insufficient allegations, but allowed the students to revise the lawsuit and before that to revise the first version. In Monday's decision, he dismissed the third version and denied permission for another revision.

The defenders in the lawsuit were the university, President The Wong, eight other administrators and Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who teaches in the university's College of Ethnic Studies.

The Lawfare Project, a New York-based pro-Israel legal group representing the students, said it will appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"We strongly disagree with the order and continue to pursue an appeal." We always knew the road to justice will be long, "the project said in a statement.

The project has also been filed a state court in San Francisco Superior Court against the university's trustees on behalf of two of the students. The case is currently scheduled for trial next March.

SFSU spokeswoman Mary Kenny said, "The university has no additional comment."

In previous statements, the university has said that its administrators do not tolerate discrimination and that it is "deeply committed to the elimination of anti-Semitism in our community and to fostering a safe and welcoming campus for our Jewish students."

Among other allegations, the president of Nir Barkat, the president of Nir Barkat, the president of Nir Barkat, has been asked to appear on April 6, 2016.

It is alleged that the campus of Hillel International, a Jewish students' group, was unfairly excluded from a campus "Know Your Rights" to members of vulnerable populations on Feb. 18, 2017.

Orrick said the students had not shown evidence of a specific intent to discriminate against a significant impairment of education.

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