Commonwealth Policy Center

A federal judge ordered UCLA officials to put an end to Jew-Free zones on campus. Pro-Palestinian activists barricaded parts of campus and wouldn’t allow Jewish students to pass unless they disavowed support for Israel. This kept several Jewish students from their classes and the university library. District Judge Mark Scarci chastised UCLA officials and said, “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.” The ruling upholds equal protection under the law of all students, and it pushes back agains the ugly anti-semitism that’s reared its head in our colleges and universities.