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/SmoothAnus 1d ago

It's support for the idea that Jews deserve the right to self-determination, a core tenet of Judaism.

That is not what the protestors were protesting, so that's obviously not why the students would have been blocked from entering the encampment.

What you (and the judge) want to claim is that the students were blocked because they were Jewish, but the claims made by the plaintiffs themselves is that they were blocked because they were Zionists. Zionism is not merely the belief that Jews deserve the right to self-determination.

I guess you are telling Jews what their faith is. That's weird.

I am telling you, because you clearly don't know. Zionism is not a core tenant of Judaism.

Oh, okay. So you are just going to go ahead and tell the federal judge and antisemitism task force at UCLA they were wrong.

The judge used deliberately misleading wording, as I have pointed out.

Multiple students reported being stopped and harassed. And there were three students, not one, which shows you did not read the full opinion from the judge.

All of the plaintiffs are claiming they could not access the quad, which was probably true. They are also claiming they could not access the library because of the encampment, and that is false: the encampment only blocked the North side of the library, and the South side remained open. Furthermore, as I said and you ignored, campus police offered to escort any students who were fearful either through or around the encampment.

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u/justafutz 1d ago

You insulted me and insisted you know better than the federal judge, Jews generally, and then you claimed something about how police offered to escort Jews, amazingly, as if that’s a normal thing even if it was offered (it was not offered to all Jewish students being blocked, that’s for sure).

Good luck with your attempt to rewrite Judaism, Zionism, and literally what Jews saw and experienced on UCLA’s campus as explained by a federal judge.