UCLA student council engages in anti-Semitic interrogation of Jewish student

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UCLA student council engages in anti-Semitic interrogation of Jewish student
by David Nir

Reporter Adam Nagourney published a story in today's New York Times about an incident of anti-Semitism on the UCLA campus:

It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council's Judicial Board.

Until it came time for questions.

"Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community," Fabienne Roth, a member of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, began, looking at Ms. Beyda at the other end of the room, "how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?"

For the next 40 minutes, after Ms. Beyda was dispatched from the room, the council tangled in a debate about whether her faith and affiliation with Jewish organizations, including her sorority and Hillel, a popular student group, meant she would be biased in dealing with sensitive governance questions that come before the board, which is the campus equivalent of the Supreme Court.

Even though one of Beyda's inquisitors said he could "see that she's qualified for sure," he and the council rejected her application on a 4-4 vote. The board only reversed course after a faculty adviser, Debra Geller, admonished them.

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