You would think it does not need to be explained to universities that they can’t allow students to be blocked from classes based on their religion. If the University of California, Los Angeles, is any indication, you would be wrong.

Three Jewish students sued UCLA after “pro-Palestinian” (read: Pro-Hamas) protesters blocked them from walking to classes or other areas on campus. This blatant antisemitic discrimination should not be tolerated anywhere, much less at a public university.

And yet, UCLA argued that it was not responsible for any of this because the protesters didn’t work for the university. UCLA wasn’t blocking the classes, the university said, so it shouldn’t be held responsible for anything. According to the university, it shouldn’t even have to try to ensure that students who pay up to $43,000 in tuition each year are able to go to class or even walk around campus without hateful bigots forcibly preventing them from doing so. UCLA thinks it has no responsibility whatsoever to prevent people from taking over the campus and deciding who is allowed to walk where.

Such an assertion is obviously ridiculous, and U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi ruled against the university while noting that “UCLA may not allow services to some students when UCLA knows that other students are excluded on religious grounds, regardless of who engineered the exclusion.”

Scarsi highlighted repeated instances of antisemites violating university rules in protests after the initial illegal encampment that UCLA allowed to sit for a week before giving law enforcement the green light to dismantle it.

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Public universities should not need a judge to tell them this. The moment antisemites or any other bigots begin discriminating against students and preventing them from moving around a campus they are paying to use is the moment law enforcement should be called. UCLA should have been swift in its punishment for students who took part in these “protests” and supported bringing the hammer down on outsiders who invaded UCLA’s campus.

UCLA’s weak-kneed liberal leadership empowered antisemites to take over campus. This is its responsibility. Rolling over for loud, hateful activists to try and avoid conflict is unacceptable, both morally and legally. UCLA’s leadership should be replaced entirely by people who actually recognize that antisemitism and discrimination should not be tolerated because the current collection of “leaders” have clearly failed to do their duty.