UCLA examination remedies suspended because of the solution to anti -Semitism

The Trump administration terminates hundreds of UCLA research subsidies in response to the Ministry of Justice, which found this week that the campus did not do enough to stop anti-Semitism during last year’s pro-Palestinian protests.

“UCLA received a notice that the federal government through the control of the National Scientific Foundation (NSF), the National Health Institutes (NIH) and other agencies are stopping certain funding for research at UCLA,” the university said in a public letter to the university on Thursday.

Frank, whose Jewish paternal grandparents and young father fled Nazi Germany, raised the Trump administration for punishment of science in their efforts to fight “suspected discrimination.”

“With this decision, hundreds of grants can be lost, adversely affecting the life and changing life of researchers, teachers and UCLA staff. In its notice to us, the federal government claims that anti -Semitism and bias as causes. nothing To deal with any suspected discrimination, “Frank writes.

The scale of suspensions is unclear. At least 278 grants funded by the National Scientific Foundation have been suspended, which affects about $ 212 million in research projects, some of which have been going on since 2019 or earlier. This is so According to Grant a witnessA project of a team of scientists who began to track the cuts for financing the Trump administration.

Officials and speakers from the National Scientific Foundation did not respond to CalMatters emails about why grant are stopped

“With the support of the UC Regents Council and the President’s UC service, we actively appreciate our best course of action,” Frank writes. His letter outlined the various steps that the campus took to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli biases in the campus.

Trump’s doj solid anti -Semitism

Suspensions are the first known consequence of the US Department of Justice, which issued a notice of a violation of UCLA in order not to adequately respond to complaints of severe, comprehensive and objectively offensive harassment and abuses that Jewish and Israeli are confronted with the Campus of October 723.

The findings are largely referred to as the propalist camps, which hundreds of students and teachers have erected last spring to protest the bombing of Israel in Gaza as part of the war of the Jewish nation with Hamas. Hamas, Which dozens of countries -Inclusively, US-to-have a terrorist group, but this is also the governing government of the Gaza Strip, attacked Israeli civilians and soldiers on October 7, 2023, reigning for decades of conflict between the two forces.

Thehe Investigation of the Ministry of Justice He said that “the Jewish and Israeli students in UCLA are subjected to a severe, comprehensive and objectively offensive harassment that creates a hostile environment by the camp members.” It also states that UCLA employees “noticed that the Jewish and Israeli students had been attacked and physically not prevented from accessing parts of the campus.”

The letter from the Ministry of Justice states that the UCLA leadership last year is “deliberately indifferent to the hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students caused by the camp.” The letter also damaged UCLA employees that they did not dissolve the camp, although its creation violates existing campus policies, As CalMatters reportedS

The letter was signed by the Prosecutor General of the US Prosecutor Harmeet K. Dhillon and Deputy Prosecutor General Gregory W. Brown. They told UCLA that there was a voluntary agreement until August 5 to “ensure that the hostile environment was eliminated and reasonable steps were being taken to prevent its relapse.” Otherwise, the Ministry of Justice is “prepared” to file a complaint against UCLA in a federal court in September, the Ministry of Justice officials wrote.

UCLA agreed to an agreement with Jewish plaintiffs

In a connected but separate question, UCLA and the UC system attorneys agreed this week settlersT with several Jewish students who took Ucla over the camps last spring.

Last year The Federal Judge in the case agreed with the Jewish plaintiffs who said that the anti -Israel moods shown by protesters in the camp violate their religious freedoms Because of his spiritual ties with IsraelS “Jewish students were excluded from parts of Ucla’s campus because they refused to deny their faith,” Judge Mark K. Skarsi wrote in his preliminary order

Different Jewish groups debate Is Anti-Zionism is by its nature anti -SemiteS The Ucla camp included Jewish participants.

The UCLA agreement agreed to pay $ 50,000 to Jewish claimants for a total of $ 200,000. Ucla also agreed to donate more than $ 2 million to several Jewish organizations. Another $ 3.6 million has been reserved for legal fees and other expenses, the agreement said.

UCLA has denied any misconduct, the agreement said. A judge must approve the deal.

But this deal was greeted with outrage by a lawyer representing five propalist students and teachers, two of whom were Jewish and participated in last year’s camp. The lawyer, Thomas B. Harvey, submitted a legal document If it is claimed that the camp is not anti -Semitic and that the settlement itself is insufficient. The main topic in its submission is that Zionism is wrongly associated with anti -Semitism.

Harvey is one of several lawyers who brought a case against UC in March For the injuries, the propalist protesters, maintained during the camp last spring, when the mafia attacked him.

The plaintiffs in the case that UCLA is arranged this week “does not even claim that members of the Palestinian Solidarity Camp exclude them, let alone because of their religion,” Harvey wrote in email to Calmatters. “UCLA refused to make sense to defend its students and teachers against unsupported accusations.”

He continued, writing that UC’s lawyers “had not made deposits, interviewed any witness and did not participate in any discovery. Judge Skars even notes this disgusting failure in his preliminary order.”

Harvey said UC’s interests “seem to crush the genocide in Palestine, withdrawing in favor of the Trump administration and generally capitulating when challenged.”