The administration's stated reason is bias and anti-semitism, are you claiming that this is the definition of urban intellectual? If so how do you defend it? If not, how do you define it?
They may not be acting in good faith but there is extremely clear evidence that UCLA has engaged in illegal racial hiring and admissions practices and has supported antisemitism on campus. UCLA chose to give them that ammunition.
I wonder why the last Trump administration didn't do anything when there was a rally where people flew nazi flags, chanted "jews will not replace us" on the grounds at UVA, and murdered a counterprotestor. Why was that antisemitism overlooked?
Because the stated rationale is logical, predictable and matches what the colleges have been doing. This outcome was widely predicted years in advance and would be happening even if Trump had never been born.
Even if were to accept those things as true, stating things which are true is not the only indication of good faith. It is a widely used tactic to use rules only followed by one side against that side. Example (feel free to replace "I" with "my supporters" here): If I believed that anything I did in my interest was acceptable, but you believed that you were bound to work in the interest of the public, then I could claim that you giving your son a government job was corrupt and you would be bound to defend that, whereas if you claimed giving my son-in-law and my daughter government jobs was corrupt I would just ignore you.
