India, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has announced that the University of California, Los Angeles (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 in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students.
The Civil Rights Division's Notice of Violation finds that UCLA failed to adequately respond to complaints of severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment and abuse that Jewish and Israeli students faced on its campus since October 7, 2023, when Hamas carried out attacks in Israel, killing more than 1,200 civilians, including more than 40 Americans, and took hundreds...