‘Full Retreat:’ UCLA Withdraws Its Appeal Of Court’s Order To Give Jewish Students Equal Access To Campus
Students’ Lawyer: “Appealing Judge Scarsi’s very reasonable order to stop discriminating against Jews was always a bad idea.”
UCLA has voluntarily withdrawn its appeal of a judge’s order to give Jewish students equal access to its campus.
In June, a group of Jewish students represented by the Becket Fund sued the school over the anti-Israel protests and encampments that created a “Jew Exclusion Zone” effectively barring both students and faculty from going to their classes, offices, and the library.
We covered their lawsuit here:
Lawsuit: UCLA Facilitated “Jew Exclusion Zone” Blocking Access To Heart of Campus
Last week, Judge Scarsi expressed outrage that “in the year 2024, in the United States of America … Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith.” Denouncing the “unimaginable” and “abhorrent” violation of the students’ constitutional rights, he ruled that going forward, the school must provide the Jewish students the same access to campus areas and resources that it provides all its other students.
We covered the court’s decision here:
Judge Shuts Down UCLA “Jew-Free Zones”
UCLA filed a notice of appeal the next day. But it was hard to see how the school could argue with the court’s ruling, which gave them complete discretion as to how to guarantee equal access for all:
.@UCLA says the court's ruling requiring it to give Jewish students equal access to campus "hamstrings its ability to respond to events."
Hard to see their argument, when you consider what the court actually said
How @UCLA complies with the order is entirely up to @UCLA: pic.twitter.com/yUzNy62FL9
— Jane Coleman (@JaneBColeman) August 15, 2024
This was such a bad look for UCLA.
Today, the school reversed course and withdrew its appeal. In its statement announcing UCLA’s “full retreat,” Becket’s president, Mark Rienzi, said “appealing Judge Scarsi’s very reasonable order to stop discriminating against Jews was always a bad idea.”
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just like the
kamala says dems support israel
ITS ALLLLL A SHOW
why do you think ucla challenged the rulings ( even though they backed off..for now)
b/c the actual actions will allow the VIOLENT BLMPLO ARMIES TO INFLICT PAIN ON ALL
who will stop them???
THE POLICE ARE SADDLED WITH
NO GRABBING THE HEAD OR NECK OF A VIOLENT PERSON etc etc
loss of job>>pension >PRISON TIME TO FOLLOW
citizens are held in jail when stopping OR TRYING TO STOP THE NEXT
MICHAEL BROWN/GEORGE FLOYD
EVEN OUT IN TEXAS THEY PUT AWAY A GUY FOR DEFENDING HIMSELF IN THE BLMPLO RIOTS
they put him in jail for defending himself from a pos who had a rifle
UCLA administrators are also faced with orders from the UC Regents for all campuses not to permit more campus takeovers – including encampments, building occupations, pedestrian blockades – of the sort used by Hamas last Spring. It remains to be seen how well the jellyfish administrators actually enforce the orders in the coming months.
According to this ruling, when there is any get together, Jews will be welcome at the event.
If not welcomed, the event will close down.
I will believe it when I see it.
and then when jews hold the event
and blmplo shows up
and start interrupting and shouting down the speakers
they will then (again) shut down ( mission accomplished) the je wish led event
unless the pd arrests the blmplo
and then it will be
how come you didnt arrest the je ws when they “disrupted” our blmplo run event!!??
Only if the event is being provided by the university. Not private events. the order only covers “ordinarily available programs, activities, and campus areas”.
The fact that an appeal was filed, in the first place, demonstrates the pervasiveness of the moral rot, Jew-hating dhimmitude and Islamofascist ethos, in UCLA’s administration.
What a disgraceful episode, but, it has at least been instructive.
Jewish students will be welcome at all hamas sponsored events. Of course they will leave said events bloodied and injured. FKH
No, Jews are not required to be welcome at any private event. Only
“ordinarily available programs, activities, and campus areas” that are provided by the university are affected.
NOW JEWS will have to ANNOUNCE THEMSELVES AS JEWS
WHEN DO THE YELLOW ARM BAND SHIPMENTS COME IN?
No, they won’t.
Oh, stop. Just… stop.
UCLA should lose their accreditation and be shut down.
Accreditation with whom? Shut down by whom?