First-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles were forced to sit through a lecture given by a Hamas supporter who blasted modern medicine as “white science” and ordered them to pray to “mama Earth,” according to reports.
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia gave a two-hour long lecture entitled “Housing (In)justice in LA: Addressing Unhousing and Practicing Solidarity” at the medical school’s Geffen Hall last week, according to a complaint filed by the university’s Jewish Faculty Resilience Group.
She was seen in a video posted online keeping her face covered with a keffiyeh, or a Palestinian scarf, as she spoke about homelessness — and compared it to the situation in the Gaza Strip during the lecture, which students were required to attend under the medical school’s woke curriculum.
During the lecture, students were instructed to touch the floor with their fists while Gray-Garcia made a “nonsecular” prayer to “mama Earth” and “our ancestors,” the Washington Free Beacon reports.
“Mama Earth was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped or played,” Gray-Garcia said in a clip from her speech obtained by the Beacon.
She claimed private property and scarcity are “crapitalist lies” that killed “black, brown and houseless people,” as she railed against efforts to clean homeless encampments.
“Not only are our bodies considered unclean in public, not only are our lives criminalized for being outside without a roof, but politricksters use us for their campaigns,” she said in a video posted to TikTok.
Gray-Garcia went on to note that California spent $30 million “on the removal of our houseless bodies” and asked students to think about how many homes could be built with that money “even in these inflated, ridiculous prices of commodified Mama Earth.”
At another point during the lecture, Gray-Garcia is said to have called modern medicine “white science” and said they were in “what the settlers call LA,” according to the Free Beacon.
In other instances, the advocate for the homeless led students in chants of “Free, free Palestine” — and when one student refused to stand during a second pagan prayer, an unidentified UCLA faculty member asked for the pupil’s name, sparking concerns they could face repercussions, the Jewish Faculty Resilience Group’s complaint says.
“I was very deeply offended and disgusted,” someone who witnessed the event told Fox News, calling it “crazy”
“I think even probably all students who stood up [during the prayer], a good number felt unsettled regardless of your religious persuasion,” the unidentified witness said.
“I think a lot of the students have the sense that this is weird or out of place.”
The Jewish faculty group, meanwhile, said the lecture “never should have taken place.
“If anything of that ilk managed to occur on campus notwithstanding efforts to avoid it, the immediate obligation of all administrative staff should have been to end it immediately and to support the students who have been mistreated,” the professors wrote to Chancellor Gene Block.
“Instead, staff acted exactly to the contrary of their duties.”
The staff members urged Block to “put an end to the antisemitism and political indoctrination that is continuing to take place at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.”
The university is already facing a federal probe into antisemitic acts that have occurred at the school, and the Jewish faculty group noted in their letter that Gray-Garcia once came to campus wearing a “terrorist-themed costume.”
On social media, she has also claimed that Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel was justified.
“As we hold our relatives in Occupied Palestine, and all of Mama Earth in prayer and love, we need to make connections,” she posted on X the next day.
“For us houseless, indigenous, swept/evicted people — we [are] not separate from this struggle — we suffer from the same settler colonial terror.”
Then on Nov. 1, she wrote: “When you resist after decades of relentless policing, killing and terrorizing, that’s not ‘terrorism,’ that’s justice.”
Meanwhile, the medical school has also come under fire for its HEALS curriculum, under which the entire first year of medical school focuses on “Structural Racism and Health Equity.”
It was “redesigned to empower students to become physicians and committed to … advocac[y] and humanistic care,” university officials said.
The Post has reached out to UCLA for comment.
