UCLA’s Jewish community unites against Trump’s $1-billion demand: ‘Misguided and punitive’

UCLA’s Jewish community unites against Trump’s $1-billion demand: ‘Misguided and punitive’
Publisher:Los Angeles Times
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Published: August 19, 2025
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Professor David Myers, a Nexus Project Task Force member and professor of Jewish history at the University of California, Los Angeles, highlighted that universities settling litigation related to antisemitism claims with the Trump administration could set a “dangerous” precedent. Myers told the Los Angeles Times: “If [Harvard and the University of California system] agree to a settlement, then probably every subsequent institution will do the same. What I find dangerous is not just the bankrupting of these extraordinary institutions … but also the attempt to impose supervision and restraints on scholarship and intellectual discourse.”