Anti-Semitism at UCLA

Is anti-Semitism alive and well on America’s college campuses? In the video below, UCLA’s student council deliberates over the application of Rachel Beyda for a position on the university’s judicial board. Ms. Beyda is acknowledged to be “qualified, for sure” and “a great candidate, obviously.” Yet there is a problem. “I just worry about her affiliations.” She is “a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community.” The student council voted not to appoint Ms. Beyda to the judicial board:

Happily, the decision was later reversed. Still, the extent to which anti-Semitism has gone mainstream in universities is shocking.

Via Jeffrey Goldberg on Twitter.

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