After months of anticipation over whether the University of California’s Board of Regents would adopt a definition of anti-Semitism in the wake of several anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents across its campuses, the U.C.’s governing arm rejected a “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” drafted by the office of U.C. President Janet Napolitano at its Sept. 17 meeting in Irvine.

At the public meeting, regent after regent expressed disappointment with the proposed statement, which was released to the public last week and condemns “intolerance,” “discrimination” and “hatred,” but does not directly address the concerns of the pro-Israel Jewish students who had pushed for a statement to clarify the U.C.’s definition of unacceptable intolerance.

There was no vote on the table, but following the discussion, Napolitano and the regents instructed regent Eddie Island, a retired attorney and executive, to lead a “working group” of eight regents, chancellors, faculty and students in drafting a new statement that should have “an articulated set of principles,” Napolitano said. The regents didn’t issue a timeline for the new proposed statement.

“We all recognize that more work needs to be done,” Napolitano said.

The issue is largely the result of a series of votes at U.C. campuses on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. In November 2014, UCLA’s student government passed a BDS resolution, and student governments at seven of U.C.’s 10 campuses have passed similar ones. On Jan. 31, the exterior of the house of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi at U.C. Davis was spray-painted with swastikas. Last February, Rachel Beyda, a Jewish pre-law student at UCLA who had been nominated for a student-judicial role, was asked at her nomination hearing as to whether she could serve as an unbiased judge because she is Jewish.