According to reports, first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles were forced to attend a lecture where a guest speaker voiced pro-Palestine sentiment and instructed the attendees to bow down to “mama earth.”
The mandatory lecture was given by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, someone who has praised the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel as “‘justice.” According to audio captured by students in attendance, “Tiny” led the audience in a “non-secular prayer” given to the “ancestors.” Reportedly, the medical students also had to get on their knees and touch the floor to pray homage to “mama earth.”
Since the controversial lecture, there has been notable backlash from students and conservative activists. For example, the UCLA Jewish Faculty Resilience Group issued a letter to the university’s administration, slamming the event. The group expressed its desire for an “urgent and thorough external review” of the course curriculum and to cease the alleged “political indoctrination.”
”We write to bring to your attention disturbing events that unfolded two days ago on the UCLA campus… based on the first-hand eyewitness reports presented to us by multiple first-year students,” according to the letter written by UCLA Professors Kira Stein and Elina Veytsman.
The letter continued, calling out the activist who “instructed students to get out of their seats and stand upright with her for a closing prayer, once again to ‘mama earth’ and the ‘ancestors.’ Of those gathered, a handful of students who were visibly uncomfortable declined to participate, remaining seated throughout.”
The UCLA Jewish Faculty Resilience Group further criticized the event for essentially coercing students into compelled speech that may have contradicted their own personal beliefs. They called for a comprehensive review of the curriculum while alleging “systemic antisemitism” was also at play.
“The net effect was that UCLA staff intimidated first-year medical students into participating in a religious service in derogation of their own personal beliefs,” the Jewish faculty group added. “There needs to be an urgent and thorough external review and investigation of the [medical school’s] curriculum and systemic antisemitism.”
Furthermore, several students who were forced to attend the lecture discussed their discomfort and offense that was taken from the lecture with “Tiny.” One individual told Fox News Digital, “I was very deeply offended and disgusted.” They added, “It’s quite disturbing but also hilarious, actually.”
The individual noted that regardless of whether the content directly violated their religious beliefs or not, many appeared to find the lecture unusual and uncomfortable, especially since it was given to first-year medical students.
”I think even probably all students who stood up there [during the prayer], a good number felt unsettled regardless of your religious persuasion,” they said. “I think a lot of students have the sense that this is weird or out of place.”
The controversial lecture, which was somehow applicable to aspiring members of the medical field, comes as the Department of Education is investigating UCLA for alleged anti-Semitic incidents that have occurred on its campus. Since the Hamas attack on Israel last fall, tensions between pro-Palestinian students and Jewish students have arisen. See footage of Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, below:
@povertyskola Back in East Hollywood again where the politricksters & poor people haters would rather see our Houseless bodies dead
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