To the editor: To anybody who believes the Trump administration is concerned about eradicating antisemitism on school campuses, bear in mind this: After the white supremacists protesting in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 chanted, “Jews is not going to substitute us,” President Trump remarked that there are “some very fine people on both sides.”
This so-called effort to fight antisemitism is a smokescreen (“Trump court action accuses UCLA of trying to ‘evade responsibility’ for alleged antisemitism,” March 18). It’s an effort to not solely restrict campus free speech, but additionally, and particularly, to chop off federal funds to universities for specious causes.
The previous chancellor of UCLA is Jewish and Jewish professors are completely towards this disingenuous, harmful, anti-democratic, repressive and punitive coverage. It’s all about closing down the normal campus openness of free speech and the proper to display as a way to management what goes on at a college. It’s little doubt a violation of the Structure. It’s not about attacking antisemitism.
Richard Z. Fond, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: If there may be one redeeming high quality of the Trump administration, it’s the crackdown on antisemitism on school campuses. The universities did nothing till the administration pressured the difficulty. In line with the L.A. Instances article, UCLA employees members have been concerned in serving to to arrange barricades. These staffers are paid by the state and don’t have any enterprise being concerned within the chaos on campus.
Neil Snow, Manhattan Seashore
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To the editor: As a Jewish American whose father fought towards the Nazis, I take antisemitism very severely and can fight it each time and wherever I discover it — that features Hamas and sure factions of the American pro-Palestinian motion.
That doesn’t imply, nonetheless, that I help Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s anti-humanitarian bombing marketing campaign or the U.S. administration utilizing antisemitism as an excuse to chop funding from Columbia College and different establishments that educate the reality about Trump and his Republican cronies.
Alan Schuchman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Trump’s pathetic intolerance has predictably come to a harmful place. A university campus is designed for shedding mild on antisemitism and different core points. Together with that mild generally comes warmth, as a part of the method. However I imagine to my core that out of the crucible additionally comes studying and knowledge manifested in compromise and peace. I really feel for all my colleagues in larger schooling dealing with this manifest degree of malevolent ignorance from anybody who purports to name himself a frontrunner. It’s actually sickening.
Vance Peterson, Altadena
