UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission Cut Jews From the Hiring Process, Complaint Argues

Anti-Semitism

Emma Camp | 12.4.2024 11:05 AM

The Cultural Affairs Commission at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) explicitly discriminated against Jewish students in its hiring process, a complaint with a university Judicial Board claims. While the head of the organization sought to cut "zionist" students from the hiring process, the complaint, from student Bella Brannon, alleges that every student who mentioned their Jewish identity—including those who didn't mention Israel or the war in Gaza at all—were rejected when they applied to serve on the commission's staff.

The Cultural Affairs Commission (CAC), according to its website, is one of 15 bodies of the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council. The organization provides programming that fosters "an inclusive environment to permit students at UCLA to challenge and exchange with one another and to achieve intersectional solidarity."........

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