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The Justice Division is suing the College of California over allegations that UCLA failed to guard Jewish workers from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday (February 24, 2026) in California, is the newest escalation within the Trump administration’s marketing campaign to punish high universities that it says have been comfortable on antisemitism. The go well with accuses UCLA of failing to self-discipline those that had been concerned in protests, together with dozens who had been arrested in 2024 for failing to go away a campus encampment.
UCLA officers didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Trump officers beforehand decided that UCLA failed to guard Jewish college students, and final 12 months, UCLA reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish college students and a Jewish professor who sued the college. The brand new lawsuit alleges the hurt to Jewish and Israeli workers “goes a lot deeper” than that settlement addressed.
“America will now do what UC has to date did not do: shield Jewish and Israeli workers” from antisemitic harassment, the go well with stated.
A lot of the criticism focuses on the 2024 protest encampment that federal officers say blocked Jewish workers and college students from elements of campus and included antisemitic indicators and chants. It alleges UCLA violated its personal insurance policies by tolerating the encampment and accuses the college of failing to self-discipline any college students, college or employees over antisemitic habits.
The go well with asks a choose to power UCLA to implement its personal anti-discrimination insurance policies and to award damages to Jewish workers at UCLA who confronted a hostile work surroundings.
The Trump administration has primarily targeted on elite personal universities in its marketing campaign to win obedience from campuses it accuses of liberal and antisemitic bias. UCLA is among the few public universities focused in that effort.
Final summer season, the Trump administration stated it was in search of $1 billion from UCLA as a part of a settlement to finish federal scrutiny. Trump officers had minimize a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} in federal funding from the college, although a federal choose ordered the cash to be restored in September.
Printed – February 25, 2026 03:49 am IST