Los Angeles – UCLA said Thursday that it has been notified that he is losing federal research funds on alleged anti -Semitism, a movement that the chancellor called “a loss for the United States.”
“UCLA received a notice that the federal government, through its control of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies, is suspending certain research funds to UCLA,” said Foreign Minister Julio Frenk in a message to the community of the Campus. He didn’t say how much.
“This is not just a loss for researchers who trust critical subsidies. It is a loss for Americans throughout the country whose work, health and future depend on the innovative work we do,” he wrote.
The Trump administration has tried to press or retaliate against universities from all over the country after students’ protests on university campuses on the war in Gaza. Some Republican members of Congress and others have called on protests and some of the anti -Semitic behaviors.
Frenk said in his message that the federal government cited anti -Semitism as its reason for the loss of funds.
“In his warning for us, the federal government affirms anti -Semitism and bias as the reasons. This long -range fine of the investigation of life of life. nothing To address any alleged discrimination, “he wrote.
UCLA announced Tuesday that he agreed to pay $ 6 million to resolve a lawsuit that alleged discrimination, which was presented by Jewish students and a member of the Faculty. The lawsuit, presented in June 2024, accused the University of not taking measures when pro-Palestinian protesters establish camps on the espavera campus.
Frenk wrote in the message to the community of Bruin, as the community of UCLA is known, that anti -Semitism does not take place in the campus, but recognized space to improve. He said the university has taken measures to combat it and establish policies on students’ protests.
The National Science Foundation and the National Health Institutes did not immediately respond to comments requests on Thursday night.
Frenk highlighted an important work done by UCLA, which included helping to create what would become the Internet, and said that researchers “are now building new technologies that could feed all industries and help safeguard our soldiers.”
President Donald Trump promised during his campaign to take energetic measures against universities due to students’ protests against the war in Gaza, which Israel launched against Hamas after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, which attacked Israeli civilians, even in a music festival.
Now there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and this week the United Nations said that their integrated food security phase, or IPC, showed growing evidence of a famine worsens. The IPC emphasized that its warning was an alert and was not a formal “famine classification”.
The University of Columbia in New York City, which was among the universities, the Trump administration attacked the accusations of anti -Semitism, announced an agreement last week with the federal government in an effort to restore the reduction of federal financing.
Brown University in Rhode Island said Wednesday that he reached an agreement with the Federal Government to restore financing. He said the agreement resolves three reviews of the “compliance with Brown with federal non -discrimination obligations.”
