Who would oppose a former Israeli hostage speaking to college students about his experience? Hamas? No — it was UCLA’s Undergraduate Students Association Council, the elected student government. On April 14, the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, together with Hillel — a Jewish students’ association — hosted an event featuring Omer Shem Tov, a 23-year-old who was abducted by terrorists from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, and held captive by Hamas for 505 days. One week later, the Undergraduate Students Association Council released a statement condemning the event on the grounds that it “advance[d] incomplete...
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