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🏫DOJ targets UCLA over Gaza protests while threatening funding

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The Justice Department declared on July 29, 2025, that UCLA violated Jewish students' rights by allowing pro-Palestinian protests to continue. UCLA disputes this, saying they balanced free speech with student safety. The timing is suspicious—this gives Trump ammunition to threaten the university's federal funding right as Harvard fights to get billions restored.

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Why This Matters

Universities must silence Palestinian voices or lose cancer research funding

Schools choose between free speech and federal grants that fund medical breakthroughs.

Government weaponizes antisemitism accusations to control campus debate

Real hate crimes get trivialized when every Gaza protest becomes "discrimination" requiring federal intervention.

Academic freedom dies when funding depends on approved political speech

Federal grants become weapons to silence criticism of government-supported foreign military actions.

Donate to campus free speech organizations before censorship wins

Support FIRE and ACLU campus chapters—academic freedom needs organized legal defense.

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Which UCLA chancellor criticized the Trump administration for suspending science research grants over alleged antisemitism, and how many students and faculty filed suit alleging UCLA failed to protect pro-Palestinian protesters?

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In UCLA’s July 29, 2025 settlement resolving a civil rights lawsuit, how much did each plaintiff receive and how much was allocated to Jewish organizations, and how many pro-Palestinian protesters filed their own lawsuit alleging the university failed to protect them?

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Education
3

Match each campus group to the concrete impact of UCLA’s handling of the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests and the U.S. Justice Department’s subsequent findings.

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Education
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On July 29, 2025, how much did UCLA agree to pay in its civil rights settlement with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor over campus protests blocking access to classes?

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5

Which federal research grants did the Department of Justice freeze at UCLA after its July 29, 2025 Notice of Violation (Press Release No. 25-796)?

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Education
6

Which Trump cabinet official, in the DOJ press release "Justice Department Finds the University of California-Los Angeles in Violation of Federal Civil Rights Law" (Office of Public Affairs, July 29, 2025), described UCLA's response to Jewish students as "a disgusting breach of civil rights"?

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Civil Rights
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What occurred during the late-night April 30, 2024 counter-protester attack on UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment at Royce Quad?

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Civil Rights
8

What Israeli children’s lullaby—later repurposed by IDF interrogators for eight-hour noise torture sessions—did pro-Israel counter-protesters blast on loop to harass participants of UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment on May 1, 2024?

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Media Literacy
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Which constitutional provision did U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi invoke in his August 13, 2024 preliminary injunction against UCLA regarding Jewish students’ access to campus?

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Constitutional Law
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In July 2025, after the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division found UCLA in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause for deliberate indifference to antisemitic harassment during 2024 pro-Palestinian protests (Press Release No. 25-796, July 29, 2025) ([justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-university-california-los-angeles-violation-federal-civil-rights?utm_source=chatgpt.com)), as a university president, how would you balance free speech, student safety, and the risk of losing federal research funding?

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In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Notice of Violation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause on July 29, 2025, finding that UCLA acted with deliberate indifference to antisemitic harassment during pro-Palestinian encampments on campus ([justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-university-california-los-angeles-violation-federal-civil-rights?utm_source=chatgpt.com), [calmatters.org](https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/07/ucla/)), how can UCLA students protect academic freedom and safeguard federal research funding?

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In his July 31, 2025 email to CalMatters about the Frankel et al. v. Regents of the University of California settlement, why did attorney Thomas B. Harvey accuse UC of "conducting no depositions, interviewing no witnesses and engaging in no discovery"?

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Constitutional Law
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Did the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division find in Press Release No. 25-796 (July 29, 2025) 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 to antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestinian encampments?

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Civil Rights
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On July 23, 2025, Columbia University agreed to pay a $200 million settlement to the federal government in order to restore approximately $400 million in research grants that had been withheld and avoid further cuts to its federal funding. (True/False?)

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Education
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Did Jewish students and community members participate in the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment in Dickson Plaza from April 25 to May 2, 2024?

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