{"id":67191,"date":"2026-02-24T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-over-alleged-antisemitism-amid-pro-palestinian-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:55:53","slug":"us-justice-department-sues-ucla-over-alleged-antisemitism-amid-pro-palestinian-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-over-alleged-antisemitism-amid-pro-palestinian-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president\u2019s feud with California<\/p>\n<p>The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims UCLA violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by \u201cfailing to prevent and correct discriminatory and harassing conduct\u201d after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war on Gaza. The lawsuit is the latest action against a US university by the Trump administration since the president took office last year, and an escalation of Donald Trump\u2019s feud with the state of California.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/ucla-sued-antisemitism-pro-palestinian-protest-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president\u2019s feud with California The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus. &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-over-alleged-antisemitism-amid-pro-palestinian-protests\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}