Dec. 17, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: It’s tough to reconcile employees author Jaweed Kaleem’s report on UC campus antisemitism (“Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit,” Dec. 13), which focuses on just one facet of the story, with the next assertion from U.S. District Court docket Choose Mark C. Scarsi in Frankel vs. UC Regents:
“Within the yr 2024, in the USA of America, within the State of California, within the Metropolis of Los Angeles, Jewish college students had been excluded from parts of the UCLA campus as a result of they refused to denounce their religion. This truth is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional assure of spiritual freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish college students had been excluded from parts of the UCLA campus as a result of they refused to denounce their religion. UCLA doesn’t dispute this. As a substitute, UCLA claims that it has no accountability to guard the non secular freedom of its Jewish college students.”
With this factual background, I hope all Individuals help the Justice Division’s investigation into potential civil rights violations towards Jewish college students on UC campuses — no matter who sits within the Oval Workplace.
Merrit Maddux, Laguna Seaside
..
To the editor: The widespread and, sure, even rarely violent protests by school college students over what’s happening in Gaza had nothing to do with antisemitism. They had been about combating the unimaginable struggling of the Palestinians and criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right authorities for his or her assaults on the Palestinian individuals.
It has at all times been the appropriate of scholars and an awesome necessity to protest wrongdoings and assaults on human rights.
Liselotte Millauer, Los Angeles
