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/sacredpredictions 2d ago

How so? I’m a Jewish born us citizen and my family and I have never been to Israel, in fact a lot of friends of ours have also never been. I personally could care less about Israel. I condemn the governments actions all the time and would have been able to pass thru the picket line 

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u/knign 2d ago

And if this was a picket line “no Jews allowed”, you could still claim you’re not and walk through. So?

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u/20000RadsUnderTheSea 1d ago

That’s true, a different situation from the one at hand in which people were excluded on the basis of their faith and which they would have to lie to get in would be different and bad, thank you.

I don’t know why you thought a good rebuttal to “the line was in reality permitting access on political belief and not religion” was “but what if they excluded on the basis of religion, hypothetically” when the law permits the first and doesn’t permit the second. Yeah dude, illegal things are illegal, but the point is that nothing illegal happened.

If the protestors refused to let people in unless they denounced Rhodesia, a white ethnostate instead a Jewish ethnostate, would you be claiming white people were prevented from entering?

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u/knign 1d ago

illegal things are illegal, but the point is that nothing illegal happened.

As a matter of fact, I believe a judge called this illegal. But this wasn't even my point.

Also, "ethnostate" is not a thing, and especially absurd when used with respect to Israel, one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with full equality.

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u/20000RadsUnderTheSea 1d ago

As a matter of fact, I believe a judge called this illegal.

Dang, seems like there should be some sort of court case you could point to where it was found illegal that you could point to, then. UCLA was not decided against and admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, and agreed to a permanent court order forbidding it from excluding Jews from campus, which it already wasn't doing.

with full equality.

Barely de jure, not at all de facto. Their own reports have found as such, and anyone familiar with discrimination faced by Israeli Arabs could tell you as such. Even that report is biased against Israeli Arabs, blaming the rhetoric of Arab leaders while completely ignoring the rhetoric of Jewish Knesset leaders and other political figures.

Their defense minister's first date with his wife was to the grave of a mass murderer who killed 29 Palestinians and wounded over 100 more. A random selection of the Knesset would be more likely than not to find someone who has expressed anti-Arab sentiment in the past. "Death to Arabs" is a common chant as Israeli football games. It's ridiculous and disrespectful to the intelligence of the reader to claim that Israel is an equal society to Arabs. Your line read like North Korean-tier propaganda more than an actual assessment of reality.

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u/knign 1d ago

You can find similar instances of discimination in every country.

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u/20000RadsUnderTheSea 1d ago

What you can’t find in every country is hundreds of millions of gifted arms from the United States and an active settler project who is allowed to hold settler recruitment sessions in our country. Which is why people care about it; our money funds it.

Also I would challenge you to find another Western Country with someone like Ben Gvir’s history of flagrant discrimination and hatred, I don’t think I agree that those levels of discrimination are common. Maybe somewhere in the Balkans.

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u/knign 1d ago

to find another Western Country with someone like Ben Gvir’s history of flagrant discrimination and hatred

Trump?

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u/20000RadsUnderTheSea 1d ago

Lmao okay, that’s close. He still doesn’t quite fall to the level of “openly venerating mass murders,” though. At least not yet, I’m sure he’ll cross that line someday.

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u/knign 1d ago

Talented and charismatic provocateurs getting into politics is a sign of our times (mostly because of social media). There is nothing here specific about Israel or the U.S.