UCLA ADMIN. MAY BE GROWING SOME BALLS ... MAYBE

By Bob Walsh

 

Protesters marching around UCLA campus in support of Palestine are pictured. The rally was co-hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA in collaboration with the UCLA chapter of the UC Divest Coalition.

 

The candy-asses that run UCLA may be growing some balls, though probably it is not voluntary.  Depending on who you ask they have just banned, or are preparing to ban, the "student" group STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE as an approved on-campus organization.  This move was due to the group trashing the home of U. C. Regent Jay Sures, and then trying to pretend that the destruction was legitimate free speech.  Sures is Jewish.  (A roughly similar group, Graduate Students For Justice In Palestine, was banned four years ago.)

The school issued a statement saying, "UCLA is committed to fostering an environment where all students can live and learn freely and peacefully."  That is of course a bald-faced lie, but the school has to at least pretend it is true or they will be on the wrong end of the loss of a buttload of money and have some DOJ lawyers crawling all over the campus actually looking at what they are doing, as opposed to what they are saying.

UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz have also taken action against the group Students For Justice In Palestine.  

UCLA has thus far taken no steps against the individual students who vandalized Sures' home.