#hostile-work-environment

#hostile-work-environment

Swastikas, calls for the extermination of Jews and the Jewish state of Israel, antisemitic violence, and open harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff: this was the grim scene at the University of California Los Angeles. The general atmosphere of antisemitism was, and remains, so severe and pervasive that UCLA's own official Task Force on Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias concluded that the University's failures to protect Jewish staff and faculty constituted a hostile work environment.

Carr described the situation at work as life in hell, facing relentless derogatory remarks from his Protestant boss, Kevin Van Tassell, who called him a "Catholic f-k" and a "dumb Irish bastard." Carr faced an atmosphere of intolerance and hostility, where no one would listen to his complaints about the abuse.