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UCLA says nearly $600 million in federal funds suspended over anti-Israel protests
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The University of California, Los Angeles, confirms that US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding after the government reprimanded the university over anti-Israel protests.
“Currently, a total of approximately $584 million in extra-mural award funding is suspended and at risk,” UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk says in an update on the university website.
University of California President James Milliken separately says the institution agreed to have talks with the federal government to restore its funding. Milliken says funding “cuts do nothing to address antisemitism.”
The White House has no immediate comment.
The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funds for universities over pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. The government alleges universities, including UCLA, allowed antisemitism during the protests.
Large demonstrations took place at UCLA last year, some of which descended into violence. Jewish students said they were excluded from parts of campus by demonstrators, while pro-Palestinian protesters alleged they were attacked by violent mobs.
Last week, UCLA agreed to pay over $6 million to settle a lawsuit by some students and a professor who alleged antisemitism. It was also sued this year over the attack on demonstrators at the height of the campus protest movement.
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