Campus Antisemitism
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.
Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County, told JNS that the group’s actions were illegal, “and that is why we will retry the case.”
In his ruling, Judge Jeffrey Trapani wrote that the protest did not appear to cause a “substantial disruption.”
“We are glad to see the court rejected FDU’s efforts to rewrite the law, rewrite history, and rewrite the definition of Jew-hate for the 21st century,” litigation counsel for the National Jewish Advocacy Center stated.
The bill aims to incorporate the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism into state education policy.
It also finds that most parents weigh the current environment for Jewish students when choosing a college.
