Juden raus
U.C.L.A. Can’t Let Protesters Block Jewish Students From Campus, Judge Says
What is this, Nazi Germany? Of course it can’t.
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the University of California, Los Angeles, from allowing protesters to block Jewish students from having access to the campus and facilities such as libraries, classrooms and gathering places.
You mean like…
Judge Mark C. Scarsi’s preliminary injunction order came after three Jewish students sued the university over protests in the spring concerning Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The demonstrations roiled the campus, and more than 200 people were arrested after pro-Palestinian protests and pro-Israel counterprotests turned violent.
During those demonstrations, pro-Palestinian protesters set up an encampment with plywood and metal barricades in Royce Quad, a major thoroughfare. The judge said they had “established checkpoints and required passers-by to wear a specific wristband to cross them,” blocking “people who supported the existence of the state of Israel” from entering the encampment and other areas of the campus.
Sometimes it’s a wristband, other times it’s a yellow star. Plus ça change plus c’est la même chose.
Can we stop supporting the pretense that these protestors are ‘pro-Palestinian?’ They are 100% in line with Hamas, and Hamas only.
PS: source for the image? It seems based on the poster for the film ‘Der Ewige Jude’ and has a line of Greek(?) text across the bottom. Google search only finds the film version.
If I’m reading the Greek characters correctly, it translates to something like “Greek National Socialists”.
I have seen the video(s) from the Jewish student being prevented from accessing campus. I can’t tell what the protesters are saying. The claim being made is that Jewish students are being required to “renounce their faith”. I am curious what exactly is being demanded of whom.
My assumption is that Jewish students (or perhaps anyone, Jewish or not, trying to get past the protesters) are being asked to denounce Israel, and some Jewish students are hearing that as a demand to renounce their faith. In their view it probably is. It is of course completely beyond the pale to demand that anyone adhere to any particular political position in order to access campus, and it is reprehensible if Jewish students are being singled out. I would like to know the specifics, though.
There are Jewish people who denounce Israel. Not that it matters; there is no reason that anyone should need to parrot a political position in order to access campus.
Indeed, not knowing the Greek language but being familiar with the Greek alphabet, a direct transliteration of ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣΟΣΙΑΛΙΣΤΕΣ would be ELLENES ETHNIKOSOSIALISTES. Even I know that Greeks call their country Ελλας, and “ethnikososialistes” is also easy to figure out.
Wait, didn’t fully grok this first read through… A judge is barring protestors from creating checkpoints and the like? Restricting people’s freedom of movement in a public space can’t possibly be legal, so how can they be barred from doing so?
BKISA @ 5
My understanding is, the judge is barring the university from allowing the checkpoints. It’s an injunction against the university, not the protesters. So now it becomes the university’s responsibility to shut down the protesters.
My own @ 3
I had missed this bit, which partly addresses my question:
That’s not exactly “Jewish people”, but it’s close enough. And it’s much stronger than “denounce the actions of the government of Israel”, as I had imagined.
Regardless, you can’t have checkpoints, that’s non-negotiable in a free society (not that I’m expecting disagreement here). Whatever your views checkpoints can’t be a thing.