More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation

Move comes after counter-protesters' attack on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and violent police raid on encampment

More than 800 faculty and staff at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have called for the chancellor's resignation following attacks by counter-protesters on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and a violent police raid of the Gaza solidarity encampment on campus last week.

More than a hundred professors and other teaching staff gathered on Thursday to deliver a letter in support of their students engaged in pro-Palestinian activism, demanding Gene Block immediately step down as chancellor and an academic senate vote of no confidence in him. The letter also called for authorities to drop all charges against students, staff and faculty who were involved in the encampment.