r/moderatepolitics • u/awaythrowawaying • 2d ago

News Article US Justice Department sues UCLA alleging antisemitic educational environment

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-alleging-antisemitic-educational-environment-2026-05-26/
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u/lostroadrunner22 2d ago

I think having ‘Jewish Exclusion Zones’ is wrong. Call me crazy

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u/justafutz 2d ago

Reminder for those denying the above that a federal judge opened his opinion on this subject like this:

“In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. UCLA does not dispute this.”

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u/BaudrillardsMirror 1d ago

> they refused to denounce their faith

Kind of crazy for a judge to conflate judaism and zionism to this level. The students didn't have to denounce their faith to enter the area, they had to denounce Israel.

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u/justafutz 1d ago

It's kind of crazy to read about the creation of Jew-free zones on campus and say "Ah, but they just had to denounce Israel!", ignoring all the history, what the encampment organizers actually did, the religious significance, and more.