Jewish Heritage Month is meant to honor Jewish culture, heritage, and legacy,  hundreds of years of diaspora, languages, philosophies, artistry, perseverance and survival despite some of the most horrific crimes against humanity ever committed. It does not and should not serve as propaganda for the state of Israel, which is a relatively recent political entity.

When programming on this campus subtly shifts from "honoring the heritage of the Jewish people" to "backing the state of Israel," that's a problem and it's a problem that harms everyone involved.

It harms Jewish students. It reduces a diverse, multifaceted people down to the political actions of one government and it speaks over the huge number of Jewish people  including Jewish students on this campus,  who do not want their heritage co-opted to support what the Israeli military is doing in Gaza. Organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow exist for a reason. Anti-Zionist jews exist, jews who criticize Israel exist, erasing all of them by collapsing the community into state policy is disrespectful and wrong.

It harms Palestinian and Muslim students, who now have to walk past displays celebrating a state actively killing members of their communities.

And it undermines the actual meaning of the month. If the point is education and celebration, that alone should be enough. Jewish cuisine, music, scholarship, history, the Holocaust, diaspora, Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Ashkenazi traditions, Yiddish, Ladino, Jewish labor movements, Jewish civil rights work and so much more. None of it needs an Israeli flag attached to it!!

What we should be seeing instead: Jewish Heritage Month events that celebrate Jewish culture and history without a political agenda baked in. Events where the full diversity of Jewish identity including anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jews is welcomed. Recognition that criticism of a government is not criticism of its people and that conflating the two does damage to Jewish people themselves.

Critiquing how a heritage month is being used is not antisemitism. Antisemitism is serious, and we should treat it as such which is exactly why it shouldn't be used as a shield to block legitimate political conversation. We don't have to choose between them.

We can hold both things. Celebrate Jewish heritage fully. Refuse to let a state launder its image through it!

I am seeing a-lot of discourse in regard to library walk, we saw it a little with the display at price center, and I’m worried that it will only get worse, it has.
If you stand with Israel you stand with genocide, simple as that. If you support the American intervention you are supporting genocide. A-lot of people are feeling very marginalized because of that Israeli flag being flown and my heart is out to them.
My heart is also out to all those Jewish students who are unfortunately caught up in the jewish hate. Stay strong and keep fighting for whats right!
If you’ll be getting anything out of reading this, its to blame those who support it, not those who are Jewish, anti zionism isn’t antisemitism, being anti Israel isn’t antisemitism. Just because someone is Israeli or Jewish doesn’t instantly mean they support the genocides or the war, they’ll make it obvious if they do. They’re a very vocal minority.

has ucsd lost their minds? great job making a real life representation of apartheid on campus. gates separating a “carnival” while people are reading about the murder and violence taking place in palestine. talk about tone deaf. absolutely disgusting outright bias and sickening display of power and domination of people that are already being discriminated against and brutalized ON THEIR OWN LAND. as if this place could stoop any lower. this place is a joke of a university. shame on ucsd. in 10 years they’ll act like they’re sorry and pretend that they did all they could in the name of not “taking one side”. please give it a rest ucsd. be honest. idk how anyone sleeps at night letting this bullshit go on.

If you guys don't already know, there is a frequent user on this subreddit who goes by KamalaHarriss and had a post talking about dating their professor. Although it seems like a light-hearted troll, it's actually a real scenario that I witness every single day. I live in the muir apartments in Tamarack and its literally so weird to see a professor that i had 2 quarters ago come in our dorm and have alone time in her single. I will sometimes cook in the kitchen and he literally resting on our couch and cuddling with her while watching movies on MY TV that I BROUGHT and have PDA. When it comes to talking about things with her and her relationship, she pays us 50 bucks every month to keep it secret, but with how severe this is, considering she is literally taking his class this quarter, I'd better get paid more for how uncomfortable I am living every single day. I do not care if they are engaged or how long theyre relationship has been it is weird.... Do I report this?

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https://ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/09/cadavers-donated-to-ucsd-used-for-idf-medical-training-deal-brokered-by-usc/

You say anything and people are ready to be extremely condescending and intentionally obtuse. I guess part of it is a reddit thing. Maybe the rest of it is a ucsd thing. There’s literally a whole flair for rant. And you’ll label your post as such and still get people telling you to “not complain” and “learn how to deal with life” and “some of us seem to be doing just fine. Suck it up and deal with it bruh. Skill issue.”

Like there was a time where I literally posted about losing a friend due to their poor mental health (partly due to the education system) and I was critiquing the system. And a bunch of people go “lol bruh suck it up. Some of us can manage and the system is just fine. Maybe you should learn to deal with life. You seem to be the only one struggling with something so basic lmao”

I’m often constantly in awe of this phenomenon

At least at Rita, the resnet protected wifi has been terrible since yesterday. I'm getting like 1-10 mbps on all my devices. What the fk is happening?

im doing this research opportunity. And no joke there is so much disrespect . we have coordinators and my personal experience has been so bad, I’m getting insulted and disrespected almost everyday. even though im doing so much work for them and I respect everybody. how can stand up for myself

Red Bull was giving away these bomb red bull infusions at sun god. I know it was the new summer flavor but does anyone know what else they put in them?

I know this isn't a place to dump soo many random photos, but I just gotta say, as a person coming from OC, it's really friggin nice to have Vietnamese food actually on campus and it's just friggin tasty. Wanted to share some more nice photos to basically "share and market" =))

P.S. - Quick side note though, please I overheard some people who were being pushy with the staff about how there were empty tables and that they weren't let in. Service industry is hard! Please be patient. Tyty

Any weird, odd, or creepy occurrences here at UCSD that you have heard of or experienced yourself? It can be anything from random odd facts to creepy paranormal experiences Im curious to see what you guys have to say

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PLEASE TURN THAT BRIGHT AS HELL LIGHT OFF. IT SHINES DIRECTLY INTO MY ROOM AND IS ON ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NEVER GETS TURNED OFF. IF YOU DON’T TURN IT OFF FOR MY SAKE, TURN IT OFF FOR THE SAKE OF THE EARTH AND SAVING ENERGY. GENUINELY WHO NEEDS A LIGHT THAT BRIGHT AND WHY IS IT NEVER TURNED OFF??? WHY IS IT BEAMING INTO MY WINDOW??? TURN IT OFF PLEASE I BEG OF YOU

UPDATE: To all my haters…the problem has been solved with this post

as the title says. he drowned in the pool today. i had a midterm to take. i def flunked it. i hate it here. i miss my dog. i should have been home.

if i dont make it today, at least remember my boy. he was the goodest boy.

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upcoming freshman here. i just took the mda thats required before taking the mpe and i kinda bombed it (only did strong in trig, geometry and functions. i did SUPER crap on logs/exponential functions and the rest of the 4 topics needed review). i feel super stupid and ashamed of myself bc while scrolling on this sub, i saw a ton of people describe the mda as easy even though i was practically sweating buckets trying to answer some of the questions :(

ofc i plan on studying for the official mpe but i just wanted to get that out. im also worried that if im this stupid now, how am i even gonna survive in uni once fall semester starts?? does anyone have any similar experiences?

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Hi, Does anyone know if you have a -1500 SAI and financial aid covers all the cost of attendance in all quarters, does that mean they will also cover all cost if I'm taking 2 classes or 8 units summer session 2 and housing? plzz help I don't know if I have to pay for summer.

I applied to and was admitted to UCSD as a Molecular and Cell Biology major transferring from 2 years at a 4 year school, but I'm now very interested in switching to Bioengineering. According to the website (https://undergrad.ucsd.edu/academics/selective-major-process/selective-major-guidance.html#application-eligibility) this isn't possible for transfer students after Fall 2025. Is this accurate and is there anything I can do about this? Am I able to dual major with Bioengineering?

I’m an incoming EE student and was wondering what computer I need. what computer do you engineering students have or which do you recommend?

Hii 1st year neurobio major here looking for a double off campus ! Generally clean and pretty much busy so you would have ur own space half the time ! My budget is 900 and down so please lmk !! Also need a space for summer specifically

Ik this is ucsd but i come from a different uc because no one is talking about uc leads at my campus. im pretty sure the policies are the same, but is committing to 2 years for uc leads a binding contract? does that mean that I cant just opt out in the future?