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The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said Friday, after the Department of Justice accused the school of antisemitism and other civil rights violations.

UCLA is the first public university to be targeted by a widespread funding freeze over allegations of civil rights violations related to antisemitism and affirmative action.

President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges. In recent weeks, the administration has struck deals with Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million but has explored larger settlements, such as in its ongoing battle with Harvard University.

The Trump administration had suspended $584 million in federal grants for UCLA, the university said this week. On July 29, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division issued a finding that UCLA violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”

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[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Can't wait to hear how the words "Free Palestine", asking for the freeing of semites, is anti semetic. UCLA should counter sue by scale of their campus to the U.S. for antisemitism towards Palestinians.

419 acre campus, 2.26 billion acres Some quick math puts that lawsuit at $5,000,000,000,000,000+ Hmmm... Where did they get their billion dollar number from?

More than 5 quadrillion dollars to scale that lawsuit, it's like Dr. Evil numbers

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