Jewish groups protest removal of Jewish DA from Stanford protest case

Jewish groups in California’s Bay Area are protesting a judge’s decision to remove a local Jewish district attorney from a case involving pro-Palestinian protesters accused of vandalizing Stanford University’s president’s office.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen was disqualified from retrying a felony case against five protesters after Judge Kelley Paul ruled that Rosen had crossed a legal line by suggesting in campaign messaging that the protest was antisemitic.

“Rosen is allowed to take a strong stance against crime in the community, against antisemitism. But caution and care need to be taken when utilizing active litigation in campaign communication,” Paul said from the bench.

The judge said Rosen erred by publicly labeling the incident antisemitic even though the defendants were not charged with a hate crime.



https://www.jpost.com/international/article-895855