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  • Anti-Israel campaign at UCLA echoes of McCarthyism

    Abraham Cooper and Aron Hier, JTA|May 30, 2014

    LOS ANGELES (JTA)—UCLA has some proud moments in the history of civil liberties. After World War II, UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, were the hotbeds of opposition to an anti-communist loyalty oath that California tried to impose on academics. Ultimately the professors won in court in 1954. Sixty years later, a different pressure group purportedly speaking for the “progressive” grassroots wants to impose on UCLA students a loyalty oath of sorts—a pledge foreswearing going on trips to Israel sponsored by certain Jewish organiz...