To the editor: The Los Angeles Occasions (“UCLA’s Jewish group unites towards Trump’s $1-billion demand: ‘Misguided and punitive,’” Aug. 1) failed to completely confront statements by UCLA college that minimized antisemitism. In truth, the Jewish College Resilience Group (which I chair) and the Process Pressure on Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias at UCLA have documented repeated and violent assaults on Jewish college students and school by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier than, throughout and after the 2024 encampment. Minimizing this actuality retraumatizes Jews on campus who’ve already endured hostile situations.
Over the previous 18 months, JFRG has supplied UC leaders with proof and a roadmap to handle antisemitism. The actual query is whether or not the college’s leaders, college and the media have studied this proof with the seriousness it deserves — or skimmed previous it, selecting the consolation of distance over the duty of motion.
Kira Stein, Los Angeles
This author is an assistant scientific professor on the David Geffen College of Medication at UCLA and founder and chair of the Jewish College Resilience Group.
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To the editor: I can’t agree extra with the writers of this piece (“Trump’s declare of preventing antisemitism at UCLA is a harmful charade,” Aug. 19). I might similar to to emphasise and paraphrase a few its ideas: President Trump needs $1 billion from UCLA and if UCLA doesn’t discover a answer apart from the settlement, there can be devastating losses to analysis, jobs, and so on. Actually a Faustian discount with sturdy traces of a mafia-style shakedown. And Trump says he’s doing this to fight antisemitism. This outrageous scheme can be laborious to consider if it weren’t taking place earlier than our eyes.
Nate Tucker, Costa Mesa
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To the editor: I don’t consider for a minute that Trump goes after UCLA for the good thing about Jews and to battle antisemitism. He couldn’t care much less about us and is utilizing us to additional his trigger, no matter that be. He’s placing the Jewish folks within the highlight for all of the incorrect causes, and is, in actual fact, inflicting extra antisemitism. Please, Trump, go away and depart us alone.
Batiya Anna Lane, Palm Desert
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To the editor: The absurdity of the $1-billion high quality Trump proposed for antisemitism at UCLA was proven by the 2 op-eds on one web page of The Occasions (“Black folks on campuses assist preventing antisemitism and in addition marvel, ‘What about us?,’” Aug. 19).
Trump’s high quality jogged my memory of Isaac Asimov’s warning that “when stupidity is taken into account patriotism, it’s unsafe to be clever.”
Trump’s persevering with assaults on our universities, information and info are extraordinary risks to our democracy.
Brian Federici, Riverside
