"Two more California universities are under investigation over alleged antisemitism as House Republicans expand their widespread probe to the University of California. The Republican-led House Education and Workforce Committee alerted the University of California at San Francisco and University of California at Los Angeles medical schools this week that it had become aware of allegations that Jewish students and faculty have experienced hostility and fear at the campuses."
"The investigations come as UC officials and the Justice Department have begun negotiations over allegations that the UCLA campus has been hostile to Jewish students, staff and faculty members. The Trump administration cut more than half a billion dollars in UCLA research grants and demanded an additional $1 billion fine and major campus changes to settle the antisemitism claims. Gov. Gavin Newsom described the administration's demands as extortion and said the state will sue to protect the UC system."
The House Education and Workforce Committee alerted the University of California at San Francisco and UCLA medical schools about allegations that Jewish students and faculty experienced hostility and fear on campus. The committee asserted the university had not meaningfully responded and gave the schools two weeks to produce roughly four years of documents related to complaints, investigations, trainings and class materials. Negotiations between UC officials and the Justice Department have begun over allegations of hostility toward Jewish community members at UCLA. The Trump administration cut more than $500 million in UCLA research grants and sought a $1 billion fine and major campus changes; Governor Gavin Newsom called the demands extortion and signaled state legal action. Federal authorities opened more than 111 higher-education investigations since January, including numerous probes in California.
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