Students sue UCLA over 'Jew Exclusion Zone' as debates over intolerance grip campuses
"If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," law firm says. UCLA disputes that moving event online is caving to pro-Palestine protesters.
By Greg Piper
Published: June 9, 2024 10:49pm
Pro-Palestine activists are calling the shots at UCLA, violating the constitutional rights of Jewish students as well as a speaker and his audience, according to a new lawsuit and legal threat letter by different public interest law firms.
Religious liberty firm Becket is representing three Jewish students who were actively blocked from walking through campus by UCLA-hired security to protect an illegal encampment, violating their First and Fourteenth amendment rights, civil rights as Jews and even an anti-mask law intended to prevent Ku Klux Klan harassment, their suit says.
"If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, [California] Governor [Gavin] Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," but instead UCLA "allowed its Jewish students to be segregated from the heart of their own campus," says Becket CEO and President Mark Rienzi.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression twice told the University of California Los Angeles that it thought the school had shirked its constitutional obligations by facilitating a heckler's veto on an event featuring former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni because Students for Justice in Palestine promised a protest to convey that "war criminals are NOT welcome on our campus!"
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"If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," law firm says. UCLA disputes that moving event online is caving to pro-Palestine protesters.
By Greg Piper
Published: June 9, 2024 10:49pm
Pro-Palestine activists are calling the shots at UCLA, violating the constitutional rights of Jewish students as well as a speaker and his audience, according to a new lawsuit and legal threat letter by different public interest law firms.
Religious liberty firm Becket is representing three Jewish students who were actively blocked from walking through campus by UCLA-hired security to protect an illegal encampment, violating their First and Fourteenth amendment rights, civil rights as Jews and even an anti-mask law intended to prevent Ku Klux Klan harassment, their suit says.
"If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, [California] Governor [Gavin] Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," but instead UCLA "allowed its Jewish students to be segregated from the heart of their own campus," says Becket CEO and President Mark Rienzi.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression twice told the University of California Los Angeles that it thought the school had shirked its constitutional obligations by facilitating a heckler's veto on an event featuring former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni because Students for Justice in Palestine promised a protest to convey that "war criminals are NOT welcome on our campus!"
Students sue UCLA over 'Jew Exclusion Zone' as debates over intolerance grip campuses
"If masked agitators had excluded any other marginalized group at UCLA, Governor Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately," law firm says. UCLA disputes that moving event online is caving to pro-Palestine protesters.
justthenews.com
