"California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested Thursday that he would resign before allowing the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to pay a fine to the federal government over antisemitism on campus.
UCLA was the site of some of the worst antisemitism and violence in the country during the anti-Israel “encampment” protests in the spring of 2024. The Trump administration identified UCLA as one of its top ten investigative targets, and pulled $200 million in research funding — later rising to nearly $600 million — from the university last week after finding that it had violated Jewish and Israeli students’ civil rights.
Newsom, answering press questions at an event on artificial intelligence and the workforce, suggested that he would not allow UCLA to pay similar fines, and would even resign to prevent it from doing so.
“We’re not Brown, we’re not Columbia, and I’m not going to be governor if we act like that. Period. Full stop. I will fight like hell to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
The Los Angeles Times noted: “The university system, run by its president and Board of Regents, is independent under the state Constitution of ‘all political or sectarian influence.’ At at the same time, the governor can exercise political sway over the regents, whose members he appoints. Newsom also holds an ex-officio seat on the board.”
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