A video of a UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting in which members raised concerns about a judicial board candidate's ability to be "unbiased" due to her Jewish background has since been removed.
Rachel Beyda, who was nominated by the USAC President Avinoam Baral for a role on the school's Student Judicial Board, attended the council meeting to declare her candidacy. While at the meeting, however, Beyda was met with various questions by the council members pertaining to her Jewish identity.
One USAC representative asked, "Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community...how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?" Baral described the questions as "inappropriate."
Since the video was removed, the pro-Israel advocacy and educational organization StandWithUs has circulated clips of the video and the conservative blog Legal Insurrection has uploaded the complete video.
