California Governor Gavin Newsom is refusing to acknowledge the extent of antisemitism at UCLA, where Jewish students were harassed and excluded from campus spaces by anti-Israel protesters during 2024’s encampments. His dismissal comes as the Trump administration presses the university to pay a $1 billion fine for civil rights violations and implement reforms to protect Jewish and Israeli students.
The Trump administration has revoked $339 million in federal funding from the University of California, Los Angeles, citing rampant antisemitism, illegal affirmative action, and discrimination against women.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced this week that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) violated the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Prosecutors have declined to charge the vast majority of individuals arrested during last spring’s anti-Israel encampment at UCLA, citing the university’s failure to assist in the investigation.
A group of over 30 pro-Palestinian agitators who set up a Gaza encampment at UCLA last April are suing the university, alleging their civil rights were violated during violent clashes with a pro-Israel counter-protest group. The lawsuit also claims wrongful arrest and excessive use of force by police.
UCLA has launched an initiative to combat campus antisemitism following the Trump administration pulling millions of dollars in grants from Columbia University for their failure to address the harassment of Jewish students.
Former UCLA and Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was fired from his coaching position at Edison High School just days after being arrested for protesting a MAGA plaque .
