Important Takeaways:

• 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.
• 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.”
• The court’s injunction is the 1st in the nation against a university for allowing an antisemitic encampment
• “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.
• 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 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.

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