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https://www.johnlocke.org/ucla-med-school-subjects-students-to-speaker-touting-mother-earth-free-palestine/

In a mandatory course on "structural racism" for first-year medical student
at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praise
Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of "Free, Fre
Palestine" and demanded that they bow down to "mama earth', according t
students in the class and audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks a
"justice", began the March 27 class by leading students in what she describe
as a "non-secular prayer to the ancestors", instructing everyone to get o
their knees and touch the floor-- "mama earth", as she described it-- wit
their fists.

At least half of the assembled students complied, two students said
Gray-Garcia, a local activist who had been invited to speak about "Housin
(In)Justice" proceeded to thank native tribes for preserving "what th
settlers call L.A.," and to remind students of the city's "herstory".

The prayer also included a benediction for "black, brown, and houseless peopl
who die because of the crapatalist lie of private property".

"Mama earth," Gray-Garcia told the kneeling students, "was never meant to b
bought, sold, pimped, or played."

So began a long and looney lecture that shocked some students at the elit
medical school and has led to calls for an investigation. Wearing a keffiye
that covered her entire face, Gray-Garcia, a self-described "poverty scholar"
led the class in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" as faculty and staff looke
on in silence, according to people in the course and contemporaneous tex
messages reviewed by the Free Beacon.

One of the onlookers was Lindsay Wells, a pediatrician at UCLA and th
director of the mandatory first-year course, "Structural Racism and Healt
Equity". Wells did not respond to a request for comment.

Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as "white science" and inveighe
against the "occupation of Turtle Island"-- that is, the United States-
before asking students to stand for a second prayer. This time, nearl
everyone rose.

When one student remained seated, according to students in the class, a UCL
administrator inquired about the student's identity, implying that disciplin
could be on the table.

"The net effect was that UCLA staff intimidated first-year medical student
into participating in a religious service in derogation of their own persona
beliefs," UCLA’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group wrote to universit
chancellor Gene Block on Sunday.  "There needs to be an urgent and thoroug
external review and investigation of the [medical school's] curriculum an
systemic antisemitism."

UCLA and Gray-Garcia did not respond to requests for comment.

The course became the subject of a civil rights complaint in January after i
separated students into race-based discussion groups-- one for white students
another for African Americans, and a third for "non-black people of color"
UCLA cancelled the exercise after a Wall Street Journal editorial highlighte
the complaint.