I visited UCLA yesterday around the time of Ben Shapiro’s speech.
Unlike previous times, the area around the speech, the Ackerman Union, had been thoroughly secured with chain link fences and some pretty tough security.
The terrorist encampment was still set up and populated by the usual crowd in keffiyehs and a banner claiming “resistance is justified”.
By resistance, they mean terrorism.
The encampment, as it is currently positioned, doesn’t actively suppress Jewish students. And the Shapiro speech seems to have emboldened some folks. I saw kippahs worn on campus. And even red caps.
But meanwhile the systemic bias continues. Not a single pro-Hamas supporter was arrested for macing Jewish students and community members, but a Jewish community member who maced a thug in self-defense has been arrested.
And the pro-terrorist encampment remains subsidized by taxpayer money. When the right time comes along, it will rebound and go to war once more.