Liberal politicians fail to block anti-Israel student conference at UCLA
Allegra Thatcher - Franciscan University of Steubenville •November 20, 2018
Encouraging students that Zionism ‘can be destroyed’
UCLA found itself caught in an odd place recently: between its student government and First Amendment experts on one side, and a liberal congressman and city council on the other.
The public university refused to cancel a conference hosted by a student organization with a history of harassing Jewish students. But it issued a legal threat to the sponsors, claiming their flyers violated UCLA trademarks and could be construed as threats to Jews.
National Students for Justice in Palestine held its annual conference this past weekend at UCLA. It aimed to convince attendees that “Zionism†– sometimes seen as code for Israel – “is a human ideology and a set of laws that have been challenged and can be destroyed.â€
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