Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The University of California, Los Angeles, has announced that it has lost research funding over federal accusations of anti-Semitism at the school.
The announcement comes days after the Justice Department said UCLA failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestine protests that erupted on its campus, as well as those across the United States, in the spring and summer of last year in protest of Israel's war in Gaza.
The prestigious university did not state the amount of federal funding it would be stripped of, but said it may impact hundreds of grants.
"In its notice to us, the federal government claims anti-Semitism and bias as the reasons. This far-reaching penalty of defunding life-saving research does nothing to address any alleged discrimination," UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk said in the Thursday letter addressed to the school's community.
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