Levka"Defense attorneys for five Stanford pro-Palestinian protesters are trying to force the district attorney and his entire staff off the case by focusing on what they describe as the DA’s false charges of antisemitism against their clients.
'DA Rosen harbors an unwarranted and baseless view that these defendants are not only antisemitic, but they are also anti-American,' deputy public defender Avanindar Singh argued in a Feb. 25 motion to disqualify Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and his staff.
A first attempt by prosecutors to convict the five protesters — who occupied and vandalized a Stanford University building in June 2024 — culminated in a mistrial in mid-February. Rosen declared at the time that his office would retry the case.
That effort is now on hold after defense attorneys filed a motion to recuse Rosen and his staff. On March 26, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul granted a motion from the defense team to obtain additional documents that may support their recusal motion.
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The recusal motion argued that Rosen, on his personal campaign website and in fundraising materials, unfairly described the case as an example of 'fighting antisemitism.' Defense attorneys said such language labels the defendants as antisemites.
'There is no evidence for such animus,' Singh wrote in the motion, pointing out that the defendants have not been charged with a hate crime. 'The conflict makes it unlikely the defendants will receive a fair trial.'
A page on Rosen’s campaign website titled 'DA Rosen fighting anti-semitism' contains links to media coverage around the time that he charged the 12 protesters. After one protester pleaded no contest, 11 protesters were indicted. Five were tried earlier this year after the remaining protesters received mental health diversions or agreed to no-contest pleas on reduced misdemeanor charges.
Rosen, who is Jewish and whose late father was a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, has openly supported Israelis since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel."
https://jweekly.com/2026/03/31/defense-for-stanford-pro-palestinian-protesters-seeks-das-recusal/
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