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‘The challenge attracted me’: Julio Frenk brings the fight against campus antisemitism to UCLA

JL;DR SUMMARY Julio Frenk, former president of the University of Miami and current chancellor of UCLA, is taking a strong stand against campus antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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EducationJewish StudentsFree SpeechStudents For Justice In PalestineCampus ProtestsFederal FundingUclaJulio Frenk

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Miami, Florida, United States
"when he learned the details of the terror attacks in Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw over 250 taken hostage. Frenk, a public health scholar and sociologist who was then the president of the University of Miami"
Florida, United States
"But that was in Florida, a conservative-minded state where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other political officials have made clear that violent anti-Israel protest activity would be punished"
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Frenk, who is 71, is attempting to bring some Florida to deep-blue California as he wraps up his first semester as chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, a position he started in January"
Sacramento, California, United States
"Frenk added. What we are telling the Department of Justice and others is yes, we acknowledge, and we are fixing the problem. Frenk took over the chancellorship of UCLA at a precarious time for the entire institution of higher education, which is facing the greatest challenge in living memory, he said in a speech to a Jewish communal advocacy day in Sacramento this month."
Mexico City, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
"Frenk, whose family settled in Mexico City after fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s, told Jewish Insider in an interview this week."

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