A California Campus Brings Anti-Israel Activism to Its Jewish Studies Program

Until May 15, the most exciting collision of historical forces at the University of California–Irvine may have come in 1972. That’s when the futuristic campus — featuring William Pereira’s brutalist architecture — provided the setting for a violent showdown between humans and their more hirsute primate cousins in the dystopian Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

Recent chaos on the suburban campus has followed a more familiar pattern — though with a dystopian surprise inside.