US Justice Department sues UCLA alleging antisemitic educational environment

[u/awaythrowawaying]

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

[u/justafutz]

UCLA said it didn’t do anything wrong because it claimed it had no control over the encampment (though a judge rejected that argument already).

But earlier in the case, as a federal judge explained, UCLA did not dispute (and thus already admitted) that Jews were excluded from campus based on their faith:

“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. Instead, UCLA claims that it has no responsibility to protect the religious freedom of its Jewish students because the exclusion was engineered by third-party protesters. But under constitutional principles, UCLA may not allow services to some students when UCLA knows that other students are excluded on religious grounds, regardless of who engineered the exclusion.”

They may have claimed innocence of legal liability. They did not deny that Jews were excluded from campus because of their faith.

[u/justafutz → u/[deleted]]

I guess it’s you versus a federal judge, the testimony of Jews on campus, the UCLA task force on antisemitism, the people I personally know who were denied access because of their Jewishness, and mountains of evidence.

It’s funny though that you think simply saying “it never happened” works. I guess you are pushing alternative facts. Not me.

[u/theKGS → u/justafutz]

The linked article claims the same thing as the person you are responding to..

"News reporting indicates that the encampment's entrances were guarded by protesters, and people who supported the existence of the state of Israel were kept out of the encampment."

"Plaintiffs are three Jewish students who assert they have a religious obligation to support the Jewish state of Israel."

[u/justafutz → u/theKGS]

So, again, Jews were excluded from campus because they believe in the religious Jewish tenet that Jews should have a homeland in Israel…the judge even explains this point and the denial of services to Jews in detail. The antisemitism task force at UCLA provides even more detail, pointing out that merely wearing a yarmulke or Star of David led to students being targeted.

Thank you for agreeing?

[u/theKGS → u/justafutz]

There is something weird about how reddit is showing me this thread so it's difficult for me to see the rest of the conversataion.

The person you are replying to is saying that jewish students were not blocked from campus.

I posted text from the article that seems to confirm that.

[u/justafutz → u/theKGS]

The person you are replying to is saying that jewish students were not blocked from campus.

I posted text from the article that seems to confirm that.

And as I pointed out, the "article" (which is actually a federal judge's opinion) makes clear that Jews were blocked from campus based on their beliefs. This is backed up by the UCLA antisemitism task force, which found the same thing.