{"id":2211670,"date":"2024-04-02T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:54:44","slug":"ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Medical School mandates students to attend a lecture where the speaker calls for prayer for &#8216;Mama Earth&#8217; and leads chants of &#8216;Free Palestine."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A mandatory UCLA \u2062Medical School \u200bcourse on &#8220;structural racism&#8221; involved a controversial \u200bguest speaker promoting anti-Israel sentiments and leading students in &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; chants while encouraging them to bow to &#8220;mama\u2063 earth.&#8221; These events have sparked calls for an \u2064investigation due \u2063to concerns raised\u200d by students and faculty. The mandatory UCLA Medical School course\u2064 on \u200c&#8221;structural \u200cracism&#8221; featured a guest speaker advocating anti-Israel views, leading students in &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; chants, and prompting \u200bthem to\u2063 bow to &#8220;mama earth.&#8221; The incidents have prompted calls for an investigation following student\u200d and faculty concerns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a mandatory course on &#8220;structural racism&#8221; for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; and demanded that they bow down to &#8220;mama earth,&#8221; according to students in the class and audio obtained by the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as &#8220;justice,&#8221; began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a &#8220;non-secular prayer&#8221; to &#8220;the ancestors,&#8221; instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor\u2014&#8221;mama earth,&#8221; as she described it\u2014with their fists.<\/p>\n<p>At least half of the assembled students complied, two students said. Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about &#8220;Housing (In)Justice,&#8221; proceeded to thank native tribes for preserving &#8220;what the settlers call L.A.,&#8221; according to audio obtained by the <i>Free Beacon<\/i>, and to remind students of the city\u2019s &#8220;herstory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prayer also included a benediction for &#8220;black,&#8221; &#8220;brown,&#8221; and &#8220;houseless people&#8221; who die because of the &#8220;crapatalist lie&#8221; of &#8220;private property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mama earth,&#8221; Gray-Garcia told the kneeling students, &#8220;was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So began a long and looney lecture that shocked some students at the elite medical school and has led to calls for an investigation. Wearing a keffiyeh that covered her entire face, Gray-Garcia, a self-described &#8220;poverty scholar,&#8221; led the class in chants of &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; as faculty and staff looked on in silence, according to people in the course and contemporaneous text messages reviewed by the <i>Free Beacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the onlookers was Lindsay Wells, a pediatrician at UCLA and the director of the mandatory first-year course, &#8220;Structural Racism and Health Equity,&#8221; who did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as &#8220;white science&#8221; and inveighed against the &#8220;occupation&#8221; of &#8220;Turtle Island&#8221;\u2014that is, the United States\u2014before asking students to stand for a second prayer. This time, nearly everyone rose.<\/p>\n<p>When one student remained seated, according to students in the class, a UCLA administrator, whom the <i>Free Beacon <\/i>could not identify, inquired about the student\u2019s identity, implying that discipline could be on the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; UCLA\u2019s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/jfrg.org\/jfrg-at-ucla\/important-updates?authuser=0#h.czqizibcu4wu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> to university chancellor Gene Block on Sunday. \u00a0&#8220;There needs to be an urgent and thorough external review and investigation of the [medical school\u2019s] curriculum and systemic antisemitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UCLA and Gray-Garcia did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The surreal spectacle is the latest controversy to envelop the &#8220;Structural Racism and Health Equity&#8221; class, launched in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death as a part of the medical school\u2019s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.ucla.edu\/community-and-equity\/anti-racism\/anti-racism-roadmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-racism roadmap<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The course became the subject of a civil rights complaint in January after it separated students into race-based discussion groups\u2014one for white students, another for African Americans, and a third for &#8220;Non-Black People of Color.&#8221; UCLA cancelled the exercise after a <i>Wall Street Journal <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ucla-school-of-medicine-antiracism-course-do-no-harm-office-of-civil-rights-8143c3ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial<\/a> highlighted the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>More unwanted attention came in March when the <i>Daily Wire<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-shapiro-reveals-how-ucla-med-students-are-taught-anti-white-anti-american-hatred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published portions<\/a> of the course\u2019s syllabus, which <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1763638257408000209?s=61&#038;t=6Ve-iSSEGZmZ1KVpsighKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">includes units<\/a> on &#8220;settler colonialism&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1763638260041994418?s=61&#038;t=6Ve-iSSEGZmZ1KVpsighKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommends<\/a> a podcast about &#8220;Indigenous womxn\u2019s health.&#8221; Students are also urged to read an <a href=\"https:\/\/clas.osu.edu\/sites\/clas.osu.edu\/files\/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a>, &#8220;Decolonization is not a metaphor,&#8221; that describes the &#8220;epistemic, ontological, cosmological violence&#8221; of &#8220;the settler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gray-Garcia\u2019s talk offers a window into the way these concepts are shaping the classroom experience at one of the top medical schools in the country\u2014and raises serious questions about how that school vetted a speaker with a long history of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic posts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When u resist after decades of relentless poLicing [sic], killing &#038; terrorizing,&#8221; Gray-Garcia tweeted on Nov. 1, &#8220;that\u2019s not \u2018terrorism\u2019 that\u2019s justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Israel, she <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/povertyskola\/status\/980120874991808512?s=61&#038;t=6Ve-iSSEGZmZ1KVpsighKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> in 2018, is &#8220;amerikkklan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>News of Gray-Garcia\u2019s lecture comes as the Department of Education is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-12-14\/federal-civil-rights-probes-launched-into-ucla-uc-san-diego-and-other-california-campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigating<\/a> UCLA over a string of anti-Semitic episodes on campus, including an incident in which students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/pro-palestinian-students-at-ucla-filmed-striking-pinatas-of-biden-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bludgeoned<\/a> a pi\u00f1ata with a picture of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s face. &#8220;Beat that f\u2014ing Jew,&#8221; one student <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/10\/news\/ucla-students-batter-bibi-pinata-to-chants-of-beat-that-f-g-jew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly shouted<\/a>. In a separate incident, UCLA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-789482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> an event with former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni online due to threats of protests.\t<\/p>\n<p>Beyond her anti-Israel posts, Gray-Garcia\u2019s writings include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poorpress.net\/product-page\/physical-how-to-not-call-the-po-lice-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a> called <i>How to Not Call the Po\u2019Lice Ever<\/i> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/letterstocolumbus.tumblr.com\/post\/151584964612\/axhehee-thank-you-lisa-tiny-gray-garcia-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poem<\/a>, &#8220;Dear KKKolumbus,&#8221; dedicated to black people killed by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pop &#8211; Pop\/Our babies have been shot,&#8221; the first stanza reads. &#8220;By these occupying armies called KKKops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mandatory &#8220;structural racism&#8221; course at UCLA Medical School featured a guest speaker who supported Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israel leading students in &#8220;Free, Free Palestine&#8221; chants and urging them to bow to &#8220;mama earth,&#8221; as reported by students in the class. 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