Los Angeles – The UCLA said Thursday that it had been informed that it was losing federal funding for alleged anti -Semitism, a move that the Chancellor called “a loss for America”.
“The UCLA has received an opinion that the Federal Government, through its Control of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies, suspended certain funding for research at the UCLA,” said Chancellor Julio Frenk in a message to the campus community. He didn’t say how much.
“It is not only a loss for researchers who rely on critical subsidies. It is a loss for Americans through the country whose work, health and the future depend on the revolutionary work we do,” he wrote.
The Trump administration has sought to put pressure on or retaliate against universities across the country following student demonstrations on university campuses about the war in Gaza. Some Republican Congress members and others have called the demonstrations and certain anti -Semitic behaviors.
Frenk said in his message that the federal government has cited anti -Semitism as the reason for loss of funding.
“In its opinion to us, the federal government claims anti -Semitism and prejudices as the reasons. Nothing To deal with any alleged discrimination, “he wrote.
The UCLA announced Tuesday that it agreed to pay $ 6 million to settle legal action that presumes discrimination, which was brought by Jewish students and a member of the faculty. The trial, tabled in June 2024, accused the university of not having acted when pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up campus campus in the spring.
Frenk wrote in the message to the Bruin community – as the UCLA community is known – that anti -Semitism has no place on campus but has recognized the room for improvement. He said that the university had taken measures to fight it and implemented policies on student demonstrations.
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health did not immediately respond to requests for comments Thursday evening.
Frenk highlighted an important work done by the UCLA, which included helping to create what was going to become the Internet, and he said that researchers “are now building new technologies that could feed entire industries and help protect our soldiers”.
President Donald Trump signed up during his campaign to repress universities because of student protests against the war in Gaza, which Israel launched against Hamas after the attacks in Hamas on October 7, 2023, which targeted Israeli civilians, including during a music festival.
There is now a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and this week, the United Nations said that its integrated classification of the food security phase, or IPC, has shown growing evidence of the aggravation of famine. The IPC pointed out that its warning was an alert and was not a “classification of the famine” formal.
Columbia University in New York, which was one of the universities that the Trump administration targeted on anti -Semitism allegations, regulations last week with the federal government in order to restore reduced federal funding.
The Brown University of Rhode Island said on Wednesday that it had entered into an agreement with the federal government to restore funding. He declared that the agreement resolves three examinations of the “compliance of Brown with the federal obligations of non-discrimination”.
