The Trump administration has officially pulled $200 million in federal research funding from UCLA after a bombshell DOJ ruling found the university violated the civil rights of Jewish students during last year’s anti-Israel encampment protests.
President Donald Trump’s DOJ acted swiftly after UCLA settled a civil rights lawsuit filed by Jewish students — only to then be hit with a formal finding that the university’s actions breached both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The controversy stems from events in April 2024, when UCLA permitted pro-Palestinian protesters to set up an “encampment” in the center of campus.
Rather than breaking it up, the school fenced it off with metal barricades and allowed activist patrols to control who entered.
Jewish students were reportedly denied passage unless they denounced support for Israel, and journalists were allegedly assaulted.
Harmeet Dhillon, now leading the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, outlined the violations in a scathing letter to UCLA officials, Breitbart News reported.
“The Department has concluded that UCLA’s response to the protest encampment on its campus… was deliberately indifferent to a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students,” she wrote. The DOJ accused the university of violating both the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
UCLA was invited to resolve the issue voluntarily, but the Trump administration didn’t wait.
The Daily Bruin reported that UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk informed faculty and staff on Thursday that funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health — along with other federal sources — had been suspended. In the email, Frenk said the government cited “antisemitism and bias” as the reason.
Breitbart confirmed that UCLA’s initial failure to act — and its protection of the protesters — only shifted after Jewish vigilantes tore down the encampment themselves. Until then, the university reportedly took no real steps to protect targeted Jewish students.
Senate Republicans and Jewish advocacy groups praised the move. “This is long overdue,” one GOP aide said. “Colleges can’t keep turning a blind eye while mobs target Jewish students.”
President Trump’s action reflects a broader push to hold taxpayer-funded universities accountable for allowing antisemitism to flourish under the banner of activism. The UCLA case is now one of the most high-profile examples of that effort.
The DOJ’s investigation into UCLA marks the first major civil rights enforcement against an American university for conduct related to the Israel-Hamas conflict, which sparked a nationwide wave of pro-Palestinian campus activism in 2024. UCLA’s encampment was one of the most radical in the country.
Despite the backlash, Chancellor Frenk insisted that the university shares the government’s goal of “eradicating antisemitism across society.” But critics aren’t buying it. “Words are cheap,” one Jewish student leader said. “They let it happen.”
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