Hollywood Power Agent's Home Smeared With ‘Bloody' Handprints in Student Protests
Jay Sures, the UTA super-agent who represents Ryan Seacrest, Kara Swisher and ABC News anchor David Muir, appeared to have been targeted for being pro-Israel and being a member of the University of California Board of Regents.
He told the Daily Beast the 6.15a.m. protests 'scared the living s---' out of his wife. The Brentwood home is a slice of Hollywood history, having been built by actor Fred MacMurray, the star of My Three Sons and Double Indemnity who died in 1991.
Students protested outside UC Regent Jay Sures' home this morning, chanting "intifada revolution" and stamping red handprints on his garage door. One sign said 'Jonathan Sures you will pay, until you see your final day." Reporting from the @dailybruin https://t.co/Beu4swCt45
— Gabe Stutman (@jnewsgabe) February 6, 2025
A Los Angeles Police Department report cited by Deadline indicates that officers were called to Sures' Brentwood home at 6:15 a.m. PT in response to a 'large group blocking the street and driveway.' A law enforcement official additionally told Deadline that there were around 50 masked protesters 'banging on drums, making loud noises, and causing disturbance.'
Alongside 'bloody' red handprints on his garage door—an apparent reference to the saying, 'blood on your hands'—protesters also placed caution tape throughout Sures' front yard and a sign that read 'divest now or you will pay.'
Sures told the Daily Beast Wednesday night that the 'whole situation is unfortunate' and that 'threatening my family is so disappointing.' He added that the protesters' behavior was 'inexcusable.'
The protest was organized by the Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine group at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), according to the university's student newspaper The Daily Bruin.
WAKE UP CALL for UC Regent Jonathon Sures. This morning - UCLA students are outside UC Regent 'Jay' Sures house! Sures sits on the board of the LAPD Foundation and his company represents the ADL. Students refuse to stay silent & will continue to expose these violent Zionists. pic.twitter.com/KGQZXr3bQm
— People's City Council - Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) February 5, 2025
In an Instagram post Wednesday, the group alleged that Sures 'has attempted to intimidate students and faculty who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza' and they refused to 'stay silent.'
Six months ago, University of California (UC) regents voted to ban political statements from university homepages which, per Deadline, Sures largely supported and drove forward. The move sparked criticism, however, for allegedly stifling pro-Palestinian expression and views.
Sures, who was appointed by Governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom to serve on the UC Board of Regents from 2019, is an outspoken supporter of Israel. In 2023, he described a letter from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council reprimanding a UC statement on the Oct. 7 Hamas attack as 'appalling and repugnant' and 'rife with falsehoods.' UTA also represents the Anti-Defamation League, an antisemitism organization that is a staunch advocate of Israel.
Sures earlier told Deadline he believes they are the reasons why he was targeted Wednesday. '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,' Sures said.
Once again, a public servant is targeted for harassment and intimidation, and once again, it is a Jewish regent being targeted. Protestors calling for the elimination of the state of Israel in front of the home of UC Regent Jay Sures is unacceptable.Law enforcement should fully…
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) February 5, 2025
'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,' he continued.
An LAPD source told Deadline that no arrests were made Wednesday, however if police are able to identify masked protesters, Sures told the outlet he will press changes.
A few weeks ago, the 15 months of conflict between Palestine and Israel that killed at least 46,000 Palestinians and displaced over a million, and which also killed over 1,000 Israelis, according to the Associated Press, ended with a ceasefire deal.
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