DOJ Finds UCLA Violated Civil Rights Law

UCLA faces a major loss of federal funding as Attorney General Pam Bondi states the university will ‘pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk.’

Students protest the Israel-Hamas conflict, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on April 25, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Department of Justice said on July 29 that the University of California, Los Angeles, violated civil rights law by failing to address campus anti-Semitism.

Specifically, UCLA violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act “by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a July 29 statement.