The Trump administration has suspended an estimated $200 million in medical, science, and other federal grants to UCLA, alleging that the university has discriminated in its admissions process and failed to “promote a research environment free of antisemitism.”
The suspension, announced Thursday, was made after Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice earlier this week said UCLA would pay a “heavy price” for its “deliberate indifference” to the rights of Jewish and Israeli students after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the campus protests last year, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The news also came on the heels of a $6.45 million settlement UCLA reached this week with Jewish students to resolve a lawsuit claiming the university allowed pro-Palestinian protesters to stop Jewish students and faculty from accessing places on the Los Angeles campus.
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