Hoax Alert: Upset at UCLA (2024)

According to ‘Jewish Breaking News’ there was another so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ at the University of California, Los Angeles (aka UCLA) in June 2024 where the local rabbi was ‘verbally abused’ and ‘Jewish Breaking News’ is kvetching about how he is ‘owed an apology’.

They write how:

‘The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has yet to apologize after its campus rabbi was verbally assaulted during anti-Israel protests this past week.

“We haven’t had any communications since then with anyone in the administration,” Chabad of UCLA Rabbi Dovid Gurevich told the Washington Free Beacon.

During Monday’s anti-Israel campus rally, agitators with masked faces reportedly hurled vile slurs like “f—ing pedophile” and “fake Jew” at the rabbi while telling him to “go back to Poland” after they knocked a phone out of his hand.

Rabbi Gurevich said neither of the two primary antisemitic aggressors appeared to be UCLA students. Campus security officers allegedly told the rabbi they were not “authorized to do anything” beyond trying to “de-escalate” the unhinged harassment he faced.

Protesters reportedly injured at least six campus police officers during the violent rally, with one suffering a severe head wound after being struck. Students ended up missing finals because they were blocked from classrooms, buildings were defaced, and a campus fountain was dyed red. In all, 27 protesters were arrested, though it’s unclear how many were actually UCLA students, according to the New York Post.

Unfortunately, this lack of action continues a pattern of UCLA officials mishandling the antisemitic protests that have roiled the campus for weeks. In early May, police had to be called to break up an unauthorized weeklong encampment where “activists” blocked students from accessing campus buildings unless they pledged support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Even after that illegal occupation ended, the disruptions have since escalated.’ (1)

We should immediately note that – as per usual – there is no substantive demarcation made by ‘Jewish Breaking News’ - or the ‘Washington Free Beacon’ for that matter – between legitimate anti-Israel protesting and ‘anti-Semitism’. Instead, they treat any anti-Israel sentiment no matter how mild as ipso facto ‘anti-Semitism’ and we are supposed to believe that any opposition to Israel equates ‘anti-Semitism’ with all the implications that such a label has.

I also note that while being called a ‘fucking paedophile’ or a ‘fake jew’ is probably offensive to Rabbi Dovid Gurevich. Neither comment is actually ‘anti-Semitic’ in any way, shape or form, but yet we are supposed to believe – contrary to any standard definition of anti-Semitism that isn’t produced by the Israel Lobby such as that provided the Albert Lindemann in his ‘Esau’s Tears’ – that these statements are ipso facto ‘anti-Semitic’.

The truth is that they are not and there is no reason to suppose they are anything other than political invective that Rabbi Gurevich didn’t like but not ‘anti-Semitic’.

So, no UCLA doesn’t owe Rabbi Gurevich an apology but instead he owes UCLA an apology for defaming them as being ‘anti-Semitic’ when they are not!

References

(1) https://jewishbreakingnews.com/ucla-stays-silent-on-harassment-of-campus-rabbi/