Trump administration files fresh suit against UCLA over ‘antisemitic hostile work environment’
The US government sues UCLA for tolerating antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students, reflecting a broader moral decline in which institutions abandon biblical standards of justice and neighborly love.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Direct Principle“'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
Why this passage
In its original context, Deuteronomy 27:19 is part of the covenant curses pronounced at Mount Ebal, warning Israel against corrupting justice for the most vulnerable members of society—the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. The verse establishes a divine principle: God holds institutions and individuals accountable when they fail to protect those under their care from oppression.
This principle applies directly to UCLA's alleged 'deliberate indifference' toward Jewish and Israeli students, who are a vulnerable minority on campus facing harassment. The university's failure to act constitutes a perversion of justice in the biblical sense, as it withholds protection from those who are strangers in a hostile environment.
Scripture declares, 'Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow' (Deuteronomy 27:19). When a university—meant to be a place of learning and truth—becomes 'deliberately indifferent' to the suffering of Jewish students, it perverts justice at the most basic level.
This is not merely a political or legal matter; it is a spiritual one. The God of Israel sees every act of hatred and every failure to protect the vulnerable.
Take heed, O reader: the hardening of hearts against His chosen people is a sign of the times, a moral decay that calls for repentance and prayer.
Today's Prayer
Pray that God would expose and uproot antisemitism in every institution, and that Christian students would stand boldly as witnesses for truth and justice on campus.
Further Scripture
Additional passages that illuminate this event, each grounded in a distinct interpretive lens.
“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.”
Why this passage
Romans 1 describes the downward spiral of a society that suppresses the knowledge of God: God 'gives them up' to a debased mind, resulting in a catalog of sins including envy, strife, deceit, and being 'heartless, ruthless.' The passage teaches that moral decline is not random but is divine judgment—a progressive hardening that follows the rejection of God's truth.
When a university administration becomes 'deliberately indifferent' to the suffering of Jewish students, it exemplifies the 'heartless' and 'ruthless' condition Paul describes. The refusal to act against antisemitism is not merely a policy failure but a symptom of a debased mind that no longer recognizes the image of God in others.
How it applies
UCLA's alleged indifference reflects the broader moral decline Paul warns about: a society that has exchanged the truth of God for a lie and now tolerates hatred against His ancient people. The lawsuit is a legal response, but the deeper issue is spiritual—a culture that has lost its moral compass.
This is a sign that the world is drifting further from biblical righteousness, as foretold in the last days.
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Source: timesofisrael— we link to the original for full context.