DOJ Finds UCLA Violated Civil Rights Law

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

Students protest the Israel–Hamas conflict, on the University of California–Los Angeles campus on April 25, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on July 29 that the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) has violated civil rights law by failing to address campus anti-Semitism.

Specifically, UCLA violated the equal protection clause of the 14th 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,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a July 29 statement.