The UCLA student council debates whether a Jewish student is capable of serving without bias on its judicial board.

That just happened.

The discussion, recorded in written minutes and captured on video, seemed to echo the kind of questions, prejudices and tropes � particularly about divided loyalties � that have plagued Jews across the globe for centuries, students and Jewish leaders said.

ADDED: I do feel sorry for the students whose names are now connected forever with this controversy, which they worked through at the meeting and have apologized for. The link above goes to the NYT, which has put the students' names into the context of the terrible, historical wrongs of anti-Semitism, even though none of the students � from what I see in the transcript � were talking about anti-Jewish stereotypes. They were concerned about the candidate's activism on particular issues and whether there could be a conflict of interest in cases that come before the judicial board.