{"id":2234935,"date":"2024-05-01T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uclas-race-and-equity-director-jews-enjoy-the-benefits-of-whiteness\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T19:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:27:24","slug":"uclas-race-and-equity-director-jews-enjoy-the-benefits-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uclas-race-and-equity-director-jews-enjoy-the-benefits-of-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Race And Equity at UCLA Suggests Jews Benefit from Whiteness"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fuclas-race-and-equity-director-jews-enjoy-the-benefits-of-whiteness%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=2234935&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>UCLA canceled\u200b classes following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-exclusive-film-crew-releases-never-before-seen-footage-of-2017-inauguration-riots\/\" title=\"VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Film Crew Releases Never Before Seen Footage of 2017 Inauguration Riots\">violent clashes<\/a>\u200c between pro-Israel and \u2062anti-Israel groups. Johnathan Perkins, UCLA&#8217;s Race and Equity Director, highlighted that \u200dJews \u200dbenefit from whiteness and questioned international support for Israel. The situation \u200bat UCLA \u200cremains tense, with\u2062 anti-Semitic protests and controversial\u200c actions by demonstrators. Perkins&#8217;s\u200c views and the university&#8217;s responses\u2062 have sparked concerns and discussions.  <\/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<h2>UCLA canceled classes Wednesday after violent confrontation between pro-Israel, anti-Israel protesters <\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tJohnathan Perkins (equity.ucla.edu)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Anti-Israel protests have turned violent at the University of California, Los Angeles, where Johnathan Perkins, the school&#8217;s director of race and equity, has lamented that Jews &#8220;enjoy the benefits of whiteness&#8221; and questioned whether nations would support Israel &#8220;if the Jewish people persecuted in the Holocaust are not also considered &#8216;white.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perkins has long railed against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-choice-to-lead-dojs-civil-rights-division-melanin-endows-blacks-with-greater-mental-physical-and-spiritual-abilities-video\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Choice to Lead DOJ\u2019s Civil Rights Division: \u201cMelanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities\u201d (VIDEO)\">white people<\/a>, including Jews. In May 2020, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1266781441385467905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Jewish people &#8220;enjoy the benefits of whiteness,&#8221; a position he reiterated following Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 terror attack on the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jews are latterly white yes,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1746300323675922498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among the primary benefits all white people automatically receive from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-from-left-wing-activists-allowed-to-trend-on-twitter-inciting-violence-against-conservatives-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Attack Ad From Left-Wing Activists Allowed to Trend On Twitter Inciting Violence Against Conservatives\">white supremacy<\/a> is, not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-declares-solidarity-with-hamas-in-israel-conflict\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter Declares \u2018Solidarity\u2019 With Hamas In Israel Conflict\">life free<\/a> of suffering, but the assurance that your race will never be the root cause of any such pain,&#8221; Perkins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1266771770171813889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 2020. &#8220;That is your so-called privilege #GeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydProtests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perkins&#8217;s rhetoric could bring scrutiny from lawmakers as an anti-Israel tent encampment sows chaos on UCLA&#8217;s campus, prompting House Republicans to invite the school&#8217;s interim chancellor to testify before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA canceled classes on Wednesday after a violent clash between pro-Israel and anti-Israel demonstrators. Police were forced to disperse the crowd, though they made no arrests. The university has taken a consistently hands-off approach to the anti-Israel tent encampment on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the encampment, Jewish students at UCLA have been subjected to anti-Semitic protests amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. A viral <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\">video<\/a> in November showed protesters smashing a pi\u00f1ata showing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a student yelled, &#8220;Beat that fucking Jew,&#8221; through a megaphone.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Perkins nor UCLA responded to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&#8216;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In the days and weeks following Oct. 7, Perkins argued that &#8220;nearly everything&#8221; pertaining to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is rooted in and maintained through a &#8220;white supremacy lens.&#8221; Questioning all the support Israel received following the October attack, he asked, &#8220;Does any of this happen if the Jewish people persecuted in the Holocaust are not also considered &#8216;white?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perkins is a prolific social media poster on the subject of &#8220;whiteness.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are white, please know your racial ancestors\u2014not necessarily your biological relatives, but all the white people who preceded you\u2014committed their racist horrors so you&#8217;d never have to even THINK about your own race: whiteness as default is foundational to white supremacy,&#8221; Perkins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1754259652613951913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>, formerly Twitter, in February. He wrote in a November <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1724911576980054212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> that white people &#8220;are controlled by the 15 pillars of white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Perkins garnered headlines after <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews4.com\/news\/nation-world\/after-justice-thomas-hospitalized-ucla-race-and-equity-director-wishes-ill-on-him-report-scotus-clarence-university-california-los-angeles-johnathan-perkins-townhall-uncle-tom-virginia-ginni-armstrong-williams-amy-klobuchar-cory-booker-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas an &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; and saying that everyone secretly wants to see him die. Last month, he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/04\/us-news\/meghan-markle-stan-spreads-conspiracy-that-kate-middletons-cancer-is-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spread the conspiracy theory<\/a> that Princess of Wales Kate Middleton is faking her cancer diagnosis. In 2023, Perkins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnathanPerk\/status\/1670899302108119040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a> white people should be required to work on Juneteenth\u2014a recently minted federal holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA canceled classes due to clashes between pro-Israel and anti-Israel groups, prompting concern from Johnathan Perkins, UCLA&#8217;s Race and Equity Director. Perkins highlighted that Jews benefit from whiteness, sparking debates about international support for Israel. The situation remains tense at the University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":2234936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Johnathan-Perkins-2-e1661564031970-768x826.jpg_736x514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Johnathan-Perkins-2-e1661564031970-768x826.jpg_736x514.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}