UTA Vice Chairman Jay Sures' House Vandalized With Bloody Handprints by Pro-Palestinian Group
UTA Vice Chairman Jay Sures, who is also a UC Regent as part of the governing board of the University of California, was targeted by a pro-Palestinian activist group who staged a protest at his Brentwood home early on Wednesday that included leaving bloody handprints on his front door.
Sures told Deadline he has no doubt why he was targeted the group, reportedly called the Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine: 'I'm Jewish. There are 18 Regents, and I've been outspoken; you can Google me about what I've written, what I've done in the world of the University of California. I've been pretty outspoken about the cause, about protecting our Jewish students and they don't like it. So they do this to try to intimidate you, so you back off them. It's all intimidation.'
In a call to action for the demonstration shared to X, Sures was described as 'the embodiment of how the Regents profit off genocide and police dissent on our campuses. Sures has attempted to suppress free speech and protect his financial interests.'
A more detailed anti-Sures post on Instagram stated, 'He has attempted to intimidate faculty and students who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza, but we refuse to stay silent and allow his relationships with LAPD and ADL to go unexposed.'
According to The Daily Bruin out of UCLA, the protest was organized by the university's own Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine. It involved about 50 masked protestors who left caution tape and flyers in Sures' front yard.
'It's one thing to peacefully protest, but to go to an administrator or a Regent's house to violate the hundred-foot rule, which is what it is in Los Angeles, to disturb the entire neighborhood by pounding on drums, to surround my wife's car and prevent her from free movement, and to put up signs, threatening my family and my life and vandalize the house, that is a big escalation,' Sures told Deadline.
Sures said he's 'definitely going to press charges' if the protestors can be identified. According to the LAPD, who were called in to disperse the demonstration, no arrests were made.
Sures was appointed to the UC Board of Regents in January 2019 by Governor Jerry Brown and reappointed in March 2020 by Governor Gavin Newsom.
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