Campus Antisemitism
The court ruling found that the university improperly relied on sealed arrest records and deemed disciplinary findings “arbitrary and capricious.”
“Any foreign student tweeting ‘death to America’ should be deported immediately,” Sen. Ted Cruz said.
Most signatories are in the science, technology, engineering, medicine and math fields, according to Ilan Benjamin, a professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.
Jeffrey Lang, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “we felt compelled to sue the state for systemic, effective change.”
“Although the school didn’t terminate her, it was essentially constructive termination, because the environment had become so hostile that she was unable to work there,” Lauren Israelovitch, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that “UCLA administrators allegedly allowed virulent antisemitism to flourish on campus.”
A partnership between the U.S. Departments of State and Education will leverage the former’s “expertise in national security and foreign-national academic admissions,” Foggy Bottom said.
The anti-Israel U.N. adviser, whom the United States has sanctioned, was slated to speak at a pro-Palestinian conference on the public school campus.
The decision “was made by the speaker’s team, not UCLA,” the school’s associate vice chancellor for campus and community safety told JNS.
The incident shows how vital it is students are “allowed to be visibly, proudly Jewish without fear,” the executive director of Metro Chicago Hillel told JNS.
Elijah Wiesel, a sophomore who saw the graffiti, told JNS that, while the incident does not appear to have had much campus impact, it seems to reflect “broader Jew-hatred on campus.”
“Antisemitism is the oldest bigotry in the world, and it has not gone away,” said Mondaire Jones, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
