Trump administration suspends $584 million in grants to UCLA over antisemitism claims

The Trump administration has suspended over half a billion dollars in federal grant money to the University of California, Los Angeles. 

The decision to halt the distribution of federal grants worth $584 million comes in response to an investigation of UCLA by the Justice Department. It found that the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from antisemitic threats during the anti-Israel protests that occurred on college campuses, after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Regarding UCLA, the Justice Department revealed that the university violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fourteenth Amendment, according to the Associated Press.

“Our investigation into the University of California system has found concerning evidence of systemic antisemitism at UCLA that demands severe accountability from

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