A legal victory for Jewish students comes by way of an oversimplification of Judaism. Yet in the process it stumbles on some deeper truths about the attempt to twist Zionism—support for the existence of a Jewish state—from a modest expression of political decency into a radical and global evil, unique among the nations.
“Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith,” U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi ruled in Frankel v. Regents of the University of California. His Aug. 13 preliminary injunction means UCLA can’t allow a rerun of the spring, when protest encampments denied “Zionists” access to a main quad and thoroughfare, a library and even some classrooms.
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