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DOJ sues UCLA over alleged ‘Judenrein’ conditions during anti-Israel encampment
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The Justice Department sued the University of California, Los Angeles, on Monday, accusing the university of allowing Jewish students to face a «hostile educational environment» during months of anti-Israel protests and encampment unrest that left students assaulted, blocked from campus buildings and fearful of attending class.
«The occupiers largely succeeded in their goal of making the heart of campus Judenrein — or at least free of Jews who did not share their desire to annihilate Israel,» the lawsuit stated.
In the 53-page complaint, the Justice Department accused UCLA of violating Title VI protections by showing «deliberate indifference» toward discrimination against Jewish students, allegations that could jeopardize federal funding.
«UCLA was deliberately indifferent to the suffering of its Jewish and Israeli students and declined to take meaningful action to protect them,» DOJ said.
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University of California police secure Dodd Hall after clearing anti-Israel protesters from the UCLA campus on May 23, 2023, during a congressional hearing where Chancellor Gene Block testified. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The lawsuit is part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on antisemitism tied to anti-Israel protests that spread across college campuses following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel
DOJ alleged that UCLA’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion office «routinely ignored» more than 100 complaints of antisemitic harassment, which ranged from Jewish students being blocked from campus buildings to being beaten, pepper-sprayed and slapped with sticks. The Justice Department argued that the university’s «decision to ignore» these complaints violated Title VI, suggesting that the school could lose federal funding and pay restitution to the government.
The lawsuit’s central allegation focuses on UCLA’s handling of the anti-Israel protest encampment that formed on campus in late April 2024 and lasted about a week. At the time, anti-Israel encampments popped up on dozens of college campuses across the country in response to escalating tensions in the Gaza war. The conduct within the encampment prompted the Trump administration to create an antisemitism task force that visited UCLA.
The anti-Israel encampment was set up on April 25, 2024, sparking complaints that protesters formed «human phalanxes» to block Jewish students from accessing buildings and other parts of campus. The lawsuit also alleges that one Jewish student was kicked to the ground and knocked unconscious.
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Police did not clear the encampment until May 2, 2024, during what was described as a chaotic scene in which anti-Israel protesters clashed with officers using pepper spray and fire extinguishers.
Confrontations at UCLA between anti-Israel protesters and police continued as six UCLA police officers were injured on June 10, 2024, during an attempt to create a new encampment.
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Police push back anti-Israel protesters on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News)
Even after voicing concerns over the violence seen during the spring 2024 anti-Israel protests, UCLA school safety officers were instructed to prioritize «de-escalation» rather than aggressively enforcing school policies during future anti-Israel protests that sprang up in 2025 and 2026.
At one Students for Justice of Palestine demonstration held on Oct. 7, 2025, officers stood by and did not engage even though some of the participants were breaking the campus’ «no masking rule.» An officer was asked why they weren’t enforcing the rules, and he replied by saying he «not that high up on that totem pole» to make that call.
The lawsuit heavily cited the findings of UCLA’s own task force in the lawsuit to back up its claims that school leadership failed to properly protect Jewish students on campus.
Police officers react as anti-Israel students stand their ground after police breached their encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, on May 2, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)
«Indeed, UCLA’s Task Force found that ‘throughout most of 2023-2024, campus leadership repeatedly decided not to enforce federal law, state law, and University and campus rules,’ ‘resulting in failure to protect the Constitutional rights,’ of Jews on campus,» the lawsuit stated.
The lawsuit cited a poll conducted of Jewish students finding that 59.6% of students «reported spending less time on campus due to antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias» and and that 41.4% considered leaving the school because of antisemitism.
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The Trump administration’s lawsuit comes just months after the Justice Department filed a separate case against UCLA in February, accusing the university of antisemitic discrimination against Jewish and Israeli employees.
Fox News Digital reached out to UCLA for comment.
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WATCH: Surfaced videos of Dem Senate candidate backing ‘defund the police’ contradict recent denials
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The front-runner in Michigan’s messy Democratic primary has repeatedly said he never called for defunding the police, but unearthed interviews and video from years earlier tell a different story.
Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., has been adamant throughout his push for the Senate that he never wanted to strip tax dollars from police departments, going so far as to say he deleted old tweets embracing the ideology.
But in a video for the University of Michigan published five years ago titled, «Systemic Racism as a Public Health Issue,» El-Sayed argued that funding police and their use of force was a facet of systemic racism and constituted a public health issue.
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Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent his campaign denying that he wanted to defund the police, but in an unearthed clip, he asked, «Do police really need to use guns?» (Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
«Why are we investing so much in people with guns and less in people with the means of being able to invest in young folks, empower folks through their livelihoods, and empower them to live their best lives?» El-Sayed questioned.
«Do police really need to use guns? Do we need as much of a police force?» he continued. «And so, if we ask ourselves about how we spend money in the public, where that money goes, where it comes from, we need to make a lot better decisions about investing in the things that root out poverty, rather than investing in policing poverty.»
The video follows a report from CNN that found during the height of the «defund the police» movement in 2020, El-Sayed leaned into it.
During an interview with Detroit Public Radio from June 2020, El-Sayed argued that he never directly called to «defund the police,» but he contended that the principles behind the movement were difficult to express online in a tweet.
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«So, you’ll note, I didn’t say ‘defund the police,’ I just described what needed to be done,» El-Sayed said. «And I do think we need to be really focused on describing or explaining rather than sort of hedging on one side or the other behind a hashtag.»
«Defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets and investing more in the means of educating and empowering and engaging communities with the means of being able to take on systemic poverty that we’ve allowed to fester in too many communities.»
El-Sayed tried to pitch his stance as «refunding» the police to ensure taxpayer dollars don’t flow to «buy war materiel to wage war in our streets.»
«What we call that is, to me, less important than what we do on the problems on the ground,» he said at the time.
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Chicago police officers patrol downtown on Aug. 26, 2025, in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Roxie Richner, a campaign spokesperson for El-Sayed, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he worked closely with law enforcement during his time as director of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan, and that «as hands-on experience always allows, his perspective has become more nuanced.»
«One simple word has never been enough to fully explain the reforms we need for a challenge as complex as our criminal legal system,» she said.
«Just as he did in Wayne County in 2023, Abdul believes we need to improve law enforcement recruitment, retention, and retirement funding so that law enforcement officers come from the communities they serve,» Richner continued. «He also believes we must reject militarized policing, pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and opt for community violence intervention, behavioral health response, and improvements in public health to reduce violence and protect the lives of communities and law enforcement alike.»
Still, El-Sayed has sought to clean up his position on the matter as he runs ahead in one of the most consequential races of the 2026 midterm cycle.
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He and Stevens are vying to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., for a seat Republicans are hungry to flip.
And more broadly, El-Sayed is part of the progressive wave that is flooding into the Democratic Party, sporting endorsements from progressive heavyweights like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
The candidate, however, can’t seem to shake off his posts and interviews from years ago despite this support.
Just last week during an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, El-Sayed was pressed on his old posts and shot back that he «deleted all the tweets, because I didn’t want them to be taken out of context like this.»
He chalked up the issue to «clickbait in D.C.»
«I think this debate about 2020 and the ways that tweets are going to play are really nice on CNN if you want to get clicks,» El-Sayed said. «They’re not that effective, and nobody really asks me about them on the streets or in communities in Michigan.»
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Sube el petróleo y caen los mercados tras la nueva escalada entre Estados Unidos e Irán en Medio Oriente
Los precios mundiales del petróleo se dispararon más de 6% este miércoles después de que el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, afirmara que el acuerdo de cese el fuego con Irán “se terminó”, tras una nueva escalada de ataques en Medio Oriente que reavivó el temor a una crisis energética global.
El barril de referencia internacional Brent avanzó 7%, hasta los USD 79,35, mientras que el contrato estadounidense West Texas Intermediate (WTI) subió 6,5%, hasta los USD 75,04 por barril. Ambos contratos habían retrocedido en las últimas semanas desde picos que superaron los USD 100, a niveles cercanos a los previos al estallido de la guerra con Irán, a fines de febrero.
Estados Unidos lanzó una ofensiva contra el régimen de Teherán luego de que fuerzas iraníes atacaran tres embarcaciones en el estrecho de Ormuz, la vía marítima por la que transita cerca de una quinta parte del petróleo y gas natural que se comercializa a nivel mundial.
“Para mí, creo que se terminó”, respondió Trump al ser consultado sobre el estado del cese el fuego, al margen de la cumbre de la OTAN que se celebra en Ankara, Turquía, aunque aclaró que permitirá que continúen las negociaciones. “Es solo una pérdida de tiempo tratar con ellos”, agregó el mandatario.
Los principales índices de Wall Street recortaban parte de sus pérdidas respecto de la apertura, aunque se mantenían en terreno negativo. El Dow Jones cedía 1,19%, hasta los 52.295,99 puntos. El S&P 500 retrocedía 0,49%, hasta los 7.467,28 puntos, mientras que el Nasdaq Composite, de fuerte peso tecnológico, perdía 0,26%, a 25.750,64 puntos. El índice de volatilidad VIX saltaba 8,5%, hasta los 17,50 puntos.
El repunte del crudo también presionó al mercado de bonos: el rendimiento de los Treasury a 10 años avanzaba 1,32%, hasta 4,589%, mientras que el bono a 30 años subía a 5,08%. Analistas advirtieron que los inventarios estadounidenses en la Reserva Estratégica de Petróleo cayeron a su nivel más bajo desde 1983, lo que deja a los mercados más expuestos ante eventuales shocks de oferta.
La atención de los inversores también se centra en la publicación, esta tarde, de las minutas de la última reunión de la Reserva Federal, la primera bajo la presidencia de Kevin Warsh. Según datos de futuros de tasas, los operadores elevaron a 85% las probabilidades de una suba de tasas para diciembre, frente al 80% del martes, mientras que las apuestas para una suba en la reunión de octubre pasaron de 70% a 75%.
En Europa, las pérdidas se profundizaron respecto de la apertura. El DAX alemán perdía 2,21%, hasta los 24.901,24 puntos, y el CAC 40 de París caía 2,26%, a 8.245,52 unidades. El FTSE 100 británico bajaba 1,67%, hasta los 10.487,89 puntos, y el EURO STOXX 50 retrocedía 1,87%.
En la región asiática, el Nikkei 225 de Tokio se hundía 2,1%, hasta los 66.819,05 puntos, mientras que el Kospi surcoreano se desplomaba 5,4%, a 7.246,79 unidades, arrastrado por la venta masiva de acciones tecnológicas vinculadas a la inteligencia artificial, como Samsung Electronics y SK Hynix. Samsung caía 6,3% este miércoles, tras retroceder cerca de 7% la jornada anterior, pese a haber proyectado un salto de más de 1.800% en su beneficio operativo por la demanda de chips de IA. SK Hynix, por su parte, perdía 5,7%.
En contraste, la Bolsa de Hong Kong subía 3%, hasta los 24.199,46 puntos, impulsada en parte por un salto de más de 13% en las acciones de la firma china de inteligencia artificial Zhipu. El índice Shanghai Composite cedía 0,5%, a 3.970,88 puntos, y el Taiex de Taiwán avanzaba 0,6%.
Analistas del mercado señalaron que la escalada geopolítica se combina con una creciente preocupación por las valuaciones del sector tecnológico y de inteligencia artificial, que en las últimas semanas venía concentrando la atención de los inversores. En el mercado cambiario, el dólar se fortaleció frente al euro y se mantuvo cerca de mínimos de 40 años frente al yen japonés.
En el marco del acuerdo provisional para poner fin a la guerra, Irán y Estados Unidos habían pactado permitir el paso de buques por el estrecho sin cobro de tasas durante 60 días. Sin embargo, Teherán insistió en controlar las rutas de navegación y advirtió que más adelante cobraría tarifas de tránsito, lo que alteraría décadas de prácticas establecidas en la vía marítima.
Los buques atacados el martes navegaban por una ruta cercana a la costa de Omán, distinta de la autorizada por el régimen iraní. Según el Centro de Operaciones de Comercio Marítimo del Reino Unido, un petrolero resultó alcanzado y se incendió frente a las costas omaníes; la televisión estatal iraní sostuvo que el buque de gas natural licuado fue atacado tras ignorar advertencias, sin reivindicar el hecho de manera directa. Otras dos embarcaciones sufrieron daños menores y continuaron navegando. El vocero de la Cancillería de Qatar, Majed al-Ansari, calificó de “acto inaceptable” el ataque al petrolero qatarí Al Rekayyat y responsabilizó legalmente a Irán.
(Con información de AFP, AP y Reuters)
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