Jeffrey Lang, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “we felt compelled to sue the state for systemic, effective change.”
California has failed to enforce its antidiscrimination laws against Jew-hatred in K-12 public schools, according to a lawsuit that the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, StandWithUs and Davis Polk and Wardwell filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
The suit “arises out of the persistence and prevalence of antisemitism throughout school districts within the state of California,” according to Jeffrey Lang, senior litigation counsel at the Brandeis Center.
“The need to sue the state arose out of the wholesale failure of the state to ensure that districts were taking antisemitism claims seriously, investigating them and taking corrective action,” Lang told JNS. “We felt compelled to sue the state for systemic, effective change.”
