UCLA Ruling Clarifies ‘Moral Responsibility’ Universities Have to Fight Campus Antisemitism

A Los Angeles district court judge’s ruling Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, must not allow student activists to prevent their Jewish classmates from accessing campus buildings has the potential to reverberate beyond the university’s grounds.

Several lawyers involved in suits against institutions of higher education that have permitted harassment or discrimination against Jews in their schools told National Review that the injunction filed against UCLA may be a watershed moment in the ongoing legal battle against antisemitism.

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Zach Kessel was a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism and a recent graduate of Northwestern University.

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A Los Angeles district court judge’s ruling Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, must not allow student activists to prevent their Jewish classmates from accessing campus buildings has the potential to reverberate beyond the university’s grounds.

Several lawyers involved in suits against institutions of higher education that have permitted harassment or discrimination against Jews in their schools told National Review that the injunction filed against UCLA may be a watershed moment in the ongoing legal battle against antisemitism.