Harmeet Dhillon
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Yeah, absolutely.
Thanks for having me, Ben.
Well, there's an 80-page complaint, and it's linked to our press release.
It's just a litany of terrible acts that have occurred over a space of years.
And basically, we're talking about employment discrimination here.
And University of California at Los Angeles, and in my opinion, some of the other UC campuses as well, but we're specifically focused on UCLA, over a period of years, has allowed anti-Semitic harassment by...
employees, by staff, and without really punishing that.
And so faculty, employees of the university have had to labor under these conditions where there are swastikas that are painted on their stuff and anti-Semitic slurs.
And the lack of discipline is something that creates a hostile work environment under Title VII.
And so that's what we're going after.
here in this case.
And no employee should have to suffer from the types of harassment that existed here.
And this law protects people on the basis of race, on the basis of sex, on the basis of national origin, veteran status, and other criteria.
But religious discrimination is one of the big aspects of that.
And so we're just applying well-established law here.
And I don't think there's any question that UCLA failed in its duties.
Well, absolutely.
They were equivocating and making excuses.
And basically, I think if you really were to psychoanalyze what's going on here, there has been an elevation of the sort of protected status of people who are hostile to Jews and kind of lionizing them as if they because they champion a political cause that's in vogue.
it gives them a free pass and so you know the university administrators i'm not saying they were necessarily themselves anti-semitic they were just cowed and afraid to go after a uh a sort of uh protected category and you make a very good point ben when you're a favored class in our uh culture