The Jewish students' lawsuit describes UCLA as a 'hotbed of antisemitism,' with activists chanting threats and obstructing passage to campus facilities.
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officials, the activists enforced what was effectively a 'Jew Exclusion Zone,' segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus, including classroom buildings and the main undergraduate library,' the lawsuit said. 'In many cases, the activists set up barriers and locked arms together, preventing those who refused to disavow Israel from passing through.
, Gov. Newsom rightly would have sent in the National Guard immediately,” said Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which provided some of the legal representation in the case. professor of English and African American Studies, rejected the claims in the lawsuit, calling them 'patently false.' 'I spent many days walking around the whole area and never saw anyone excluded from the encampment unless they came with clear intent to disrupt and harm the students inside,' she said in an email. 'No student was barred from taking classes or entering the library. It was campus security that set up alternate routes.
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