It took a formal complaint filed with the judicial board at UCLA to get the attention of liberal university administrators. Antisemitic hate has been getting a free speech pass in the hallways of academia, nationwide. Alicia Verdugo went way over the top. The “Cultural Affairs Commissioner” for the school’s student government blatantly discriminated against anyone of the Jewish “culture.” She’s much more interested in the pressing affairs of radical Palestinians.
UCLA ‘no hire’ list
An official with UCLA student government was recently named in “a complaint filed with the school’s judicial board.” Cultural Affairs Commissioner Alicia Verdugo, the document alleges, “has faced repeated allegations of antisemitism” which were ignored by the university.
She illegally “refused to hire Jewish applicants.” Worse, she put them on a “no hire list.” Those infamous blackball days of Hollywood simply spread over to Los Angeles.
Verdugo “rejected every single Jewish student who mentioned their faith in their employment applications.” That’s obvious discrimination. If that wasn’t bad enough, she “even texted her colleagues to be on the lookout for ‘Zionists.‘”
The 21-year-old student who filed the complaint, Bella Brannon, told the press, “We’ve been sounding the alarm about Verdugo for years.”
Verdugo, the complaint argues, “is single-handedly dragging UCLA’s reputation through the mud.” Maybe not so single-handedly if the colleagues she warned against “Zionists” took action based on her reports. Verdugo, Brannon alleges, “makes us fear for our safety.” All it took for Verdugo’s office to reject a job applicant was identifying themselves “as Jewish.”
They didn’t need to mention “Israel or their views on the war against Hamas,” UCLA still wouldn’t let them work on campus. Verdugo was supposed to be under guidance from “the school’s Undergraduate Students Association Council.” Someone on the council wasn’t doing their homework.
Keep the sabbath
One Jewish student was disqualified for noting on their job application that “the right to express one’s religion” was “imperative.” The blank they were filling in asked them to describe “a social or political issue that was important to them.” Verdugo was looking for a phrase like “From the River to the Sea” in that space.
Another UCLA student wasn’t allowed to earn expense money working on the campus because “they would not be able to attend a staff retreat because they keep the Jewish sabbath.”
Unofficially, Verdugo was personally curating the UCLA blackball list. One text message gave an illegal heads up to her staff, under the heading “PSA.” Her public service announcement was that “lots of Zionists are applying.” Meaning persons of the Jewish persuasion.
The bigot reminded her crew to “please do your research when you look at applicants.” In other words, don’t waste her time with ones they could have weeded out for her. “I will also share a doc of no hire list during retreat.” She knew better than to put that in a chat message.
“Verdugo’s direct instruction to exclude Zionist applicants and the implied directive to be on the lookout for Jewish applicants, resulted in systemic discrimination against candidates who expressed any attachment to Judaism.” UCLA officials knew and didn’t care. Enrollment numbers will soon be nudging them to reconsider their position.
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