Posted on 08/14/2024 8:59:33 PM PDT by grundle
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, cannot allow pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students from accessing classes and other parts of campus.
The preliminary injunction marks the first time a U.S. judge has ruled against a university over the demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses earlier this year.
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in June by three Jewish students at UCLA. The students alleged that they experienced discrimination on campus during the protest because of their faith and that UCLA failed to ensure access to campus for all Jewish students.
“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.” Scarsi wrote.
UCLA argued that it has no legal responsibility over the issue because protesters, not the university, blocked Jewish students' access to the school. The university also worked with law enforcement to thwart attempts to set up new protest camps.
Scarsi ruled that the university is prohibited from providing classes and access to buildings on campus if Jewish students are blocked from it.
Yitzchok Frankel, a UCLA law student who filed the lawsuit, celebrated the order.
“No student should ever have to fear being blocked from their campus because they are Jewish,” Frankel said in a statement. “I am grateful that the court has ordered UCLA to put a stop to this shameful anti-Jewish conduct.”
UCLA spokesperson Mary Osako said the ruling “would improperly hamstring our ability to respond to events on the ground and to meet the needs of the Bruin community.”
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I wonder if any of the hateful anti-Jewish behavior by Democrats will affect Jewish voting habits.
I would bet the campus is a gun free zone. If so then UCLA is fully responsible for the safety and protection of students by preventing self protection.
So strange a judge would have to rule on that
No. You know better.
exactly
That’s what I thought...THEY HAD TO GO TO COURT FOR THAT?????
I agree that it should not have required a judge to point out right from wrong in such an obvious case as this. Shouldn’t the Governor of California, the great man who sits atop the entire California operation, have shut down this disgusting and illegal hate fest as soon as he saw it?
Oh really? You mean it’s not Nazi Germany?
“ A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, cannot allow pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students from accessing”
Of course, there’s no penalty or even a reprimand for those who did it.
That’s like asking the Prime Sinister of England to do the right thing.
> So strange a judge would have to rule on that <
Out of curiosity I looked it up. The judge was appointed by Trump. And so this is yet another example of how the country got lucky back in 2016.
Would a Hillary judge make that same ruling? I wouldn’t bet on it. And what’s even scarier, I’m rather sure a Kamala Harris judge wouldn’t.
Imagine attending a university that needed a judge in the courtroom to tell them this was wrong. Get thee away from any such university!
Just nuts that a judge even had to rule on such a case. This is so well settled case law I can’t believe any lawyer took the other side.
Ha ha ha...
Good luck with that.
not only is it a Trump judge, he Scarsi is on the bench for Hunter’s tax case. in SoCal. a bit of sanity and Justice in my backyard for a change.thank you DJT.
Some day a movie will be made of all the anti-Jewish demonstrating and the aftermath, entitled, “Torah! Torah! Torah!”
A judge had to tell UCLA this?
They needed a judge for this?
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