UCLA Student Government Candidate Challenged for Being Jewish

Campus:

While expulsion of Jews will not happen here, the BDS movement is moving towards a de factobar on Jews who are not anti-Israel by alleging that taking subsidized trips to Israel or attending conferences and training through major pro-Israel Jewish organizations constitutes a conflict of interest. That standard would exclude a high percentage of pro-Israel Jewish students from participating in student government (not to mention excluding many leading non-Jewish pro-Israel students).

At UCLA, there were attempts last spring to keep students off the student council based upon trips to Israel conducted through well-known Jewish charities and pro-Israel organizations.

Those exclusionary tactics — though rejected by the UCLA student judicial board — have had success in scaring pro-Israel students away from running for student office, because they will be attacked not only on campus but on anti-Israel websites.  This tactic helps explain the turnover in membership that allowed a divestment resolution to pass this fall even though it was voted down last spring.

Now it’s gone even further, with questioning challenging a student judicial board candidate based on her being Jewish.

Continue Reading....

 

This article was originally published at LegalInsurrection.com

 

The exchange in question begins at the 47 minute mark of the video.