Campus Antisemitism
Timur Mamatov faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
“We are hopeful this ruling emboldens UCLA in its interactions with the Trump administration,” Claudia Polsky, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told JNS.
“They’ve chosen to take the most extreme view and state that they don’t have to offer evidence,” a legal expert, who supports the president, told JNS.
A professor resigned earlier this year after lengthy campaigns for his ouster from lawmakers and Iranian dissidents over his previous role as a senior official of the Islamic Republic.
“This is something that needs to be addressed head-on,” Simon Cataldo, a state representative, told JNS. “It’s not going to get better on its own.”
“Trump has weaponized the Department of Justice to punish California,” the California Legislative Jewish Caucus and the state governor said.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who founded the GW Chabad, told JNS that the university hasn’t handled Jew-hatred well since Oct. 7 but is making improvements.
Iman Abdul, who was a paid canvasser for a Democratic state senator and had reported ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, faces charges including making a terror threat.
“It’s a stunning, insane story,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of The Deborah Project, told JNS.
The “unique” plan is “a confident first step towards addressing what is a reemerging and longstanding prejudice,” Jason Miyares’s office told JNS.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS that the suit is “baseless” and “political.”
Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that the university system president’s “bureaucratic statement is insufficient.”
