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while ignoring the truth of what the judge said!

from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/so-abhorrent-federal-judge-rules-against-ucla-lawsuit-over-jew-exclusion-zone

'So abhorrent': Federal judge rules against UCLA in lawsuit over 'Jew
Exclusion Zone'
The court's injunction is the 1st in the nation against a university for allowing an antisemitic encampment
By Brianna Herlihy Fox News
Published August 15, 2024 11:17am EDT

Were prepared to stand up for what we believe in: Jewish UCLA student
Eli Tsives
‘Fox News @ Night’ panelists Ilan Sinelnikov and Eli Tsives discuss anti-Israel protesters on a NYC subway asking riders to raise their
hands if they are a Zionist and a UCLA protester telling a rabbi to go
back to Poland.

A Los Angeles federal district Tuesday ordered the University of
California, Los Angeles, to stop allowing and assisting antisemitic
agitators to ban Jews from large parts of UCLA’s campus.

In the wake of the horrifying attack in Israel on Oct. 7, anti-Israel
activists on campus set up barricades in the center of campus that
blocked access to critical educational infrastructure on campus.

In a lawsuit filed by Becket Law and co-counsel Clement & Murphy PLLC,
the religious liberty firm accused UCLA of "aiding and abetting" an
antisemetic culture, including what effectively became a "Jew Exclusion
Zone" on campus, "segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus."

"To enter the Jew Exclusion Zone, a person had to make a statement
pledging their allegiance to the activists' views and have someone
within the encampment ‘vouch’ for the individual's fidelity to the activists' cause," the lawsuit said. "[T]he practical effect was to deny
the overwhelming majority of Jews access to the heart of the campus."

CALIFORNIA RABBI PUTS COLLEGES ON NOTICE AFTER 'NATIONAL FAILURE' TO
PROTECT JEWISH STUDENTS

Sign reads death to Zionism on the UCLA campus
Graffiti at the Powell Library on the UCLA campus where pro-Palestinian demonstrators erected an encampment on the on Monday, April 29, 2024 in
Los Angeles, CA. (Getty Images)

The lawsuit claimed that "UCLA's administration knew about the
activists' extreme actions, including the exclusion of Jews."

"But, in a remarkable display of cowardice, appeasement, and illegality,
the administration did nothing to stop it."

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block publicly acknowledged that "'students on
their way to class have been physically blocked from accessing parts of
the campus,’" the suit states.

On Tuesday, a federal district court in California sided with the Jewish students, saying, "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 STUDENT SLAMS UNIVERSITY FOR 'ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE,' TURNING CAMPUS
INTO 'WAR ZONE': 'THIS IS A DISGRACE'

Protesters at UCLA wave Palestinian flag
Hundreds of students protest outside a "Palestine Solidarity Encampment"
on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

"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," Judge Mark C.
Scarsi said in the court order.

Yitzchok Frankel is a third-year law student at UCLA and father of four
who said he faced antisemitic harassment last semester for wearing a
kippah and was forced to abandon his regular routes through campus
because of the Jew Exclusion Zone.

"No student should ever have to fear being blocked from their campus
because they are Jewish," Frankel said. "I am grateful that the court
has ordered UCLA to put a stop to this shameful anti-Jewish conduct."

Frankel detailed how UCLA’s continued failures have forced him to cancel plans on campus with his family and to forgo opportunities to mentor
incoming Jewish students on campus during orientation week. Eden
Shemuelian, another law student, said he has also had to avoid using
campus facilities and participating in law school orientation events
because of UCLA’s continuing failures to ensure the safety and equal
access of Jewish students.

UCLA FORCED TO MOVE TO REMOTE LEARNING AMID ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS,
ENCAMPMENT ON CAMPUS

Pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA
More protests and arrests emerged at UCLA on Monday, May 6, 2024, with
police arresting multiple people who gathered in a campus parking
garage. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Tuesday's ruling said that Frankel, Shemuelian and others should be
allowed to return to campus without facing such antisemitic bigotry. The court-ordered injunction is the first in the nation against a university
for allowing an antisemitic encampment to be established on campus.

The injunction goes into effect today, Aug. 15. UCLA is expected to
appeal the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Mary Osako, UCLA vice chancellor for strategic communications, told Fox
News Digital that the school is "closely reviewing the Judge’s ruling
and considering all our options moving forward."

"UCLA is committed to fostering a campus culture where everyone feels
welcome and free from intimidation, discrimination, and harassment,"
Osako said. "The district court’s ruling would improperly hamstring our ability to respond to events on the ground and to meet the needs of the
Bruin community."

Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.


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friendlyimmigrant
15 August, 2024

Any attempt to restrict legal movement on campus or elsewhere (i.e.,
roads), especially when done in the aim of victimizing a group of
people, should be met with immediate and overwhelming force.


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Leftislost264
15 August, 2024

Any force is acceptable. These college students should be taught a
valuable lesson in life.


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Islandgrrrl🌴
15 August, 2024

"Should" ...lots of things should be but aren't.

Goes to show who's in control and will be for a long time.


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guthram734
15 August, 2024

Unbelievable that a university would be considering an appeal against a
court injunction that compels them to allow equal access to campus for
all students.


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itsagoodday7
15 August, 2024

I agree the fact that this had to go before a judge is literally insane,
I haven’t seen the actual documents on what argument the school used to justify this, but it had to be case law pulled from 1942 Germany.

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peggug
15 August, 2024

Dem world. Normal people have no rights. Trump for common sense

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