The Ministry of Justice opens the investigation of anti -Semitism into the University of California system

The Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday that the University of California system was investigating for accusations of anti -Semitism for protests that were triggered in several locations about the war between protests, Israel and Hamas.

“This Ministry of Justice will always defend Jewish Americans, protect civil rights and use our resources to eliminate institutional anti -Semitism at the universities of our nation,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement.

The investigation according to title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will investigate whether UC “a pattern or a practice of discrimination based on breed, religion and national origin against their professors, employees and other employees, as there is an anti -Semitic enemy work environment on their campus,” says the DOJ declaration.

After the attack of the Hamas terrorist on October 7 on October 7 and Israel's military operation in Gaza, students appeared on a series of college campus across the country -including the Ucla and other UC system campus. Many of the demonstrators called for an end to the war to a US weapon embargo to Israel and their universities to separate from Israel. In some cases, however, there were supposedly anti -Semitism acts, and some Jewish students said the camps and encounters with demonstrators she felt unsafe.

Some critics themselves described the camps as anti -Semitic, including some, including President Trump, compared the demonstrators with terrorists.

The protests on the UCLA campus made last year National headlines When a group of counter -protesters “came to Royce Quad and violently attacked students, faculties and employees who were employed in this place at this place,” said the UCLA at the time. The collision lasted a few hours at night, with video published on social media in which fireworks and tear gas were launched in the warehouse.

In a statement in which the probe was announced, Leo Terrell, a member of the Federal Task Force to combat anti-Semitism and the senior lawyer of the deputy general prosecutor for civil rights: “The impact on the UC students were the subject of the attention of the media and several investigations by the federal government. This task force is obliged to combat anti -Semitism for all Jewish Americans. ”

The President's University of California said CBS News in a statement: “We have recently been informed about the decision of the Ministry of Justice to initiate a civil rights investigation at the University of California system. We would like to be clear: The University of California is unshakable in its commitment to combating anti -Semitism and protection of all civil rights.”

Mr. Trump threatened to pull federal financing from a school on Tuesday What he called “illegal protests”.

“All federal financing are hired for a college, a school or a university that allows illegal protests,” the president wrote on social media. “Agitators are detained/or permanently sent back to the country, from which they came. American students are permanently excluded or arrested depending on crimes. No masks!”

The campus protests last year led to hearings on the Capitol Hill, with the presidents of several universities – including Harvard, with and the University of Pennsylvania – being called to testify to their campus about the treatment of camps and reports on anti -Semitism.

Harvard's then President Claudine Gay and Upenns Liz Magill In the end stepped back In the middle of the criticism of their reaction to the protests.