UC Leaders Stand by Their Condemnation of Oct. 7 Hamas Attack on Israel

Two men display a flag of Israel as students participate in a "Walkout to fight Genocide and Free Palestine" at Bruin Plaza at the University of California in Los Angeles on Oct. 25, 2023. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The University of California’s (UC) top leaders said they stand by their condemnation of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas after receiving criticism from a faculty group for their stance.

After Hamas’s initial attack left over 1,400 Israelis dead, the UC’s Board of Regents Chair Richard Leib and its president, Michael Drake, issued a statement on Oct. 9 condemning it.