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House Republicans demanded years of internal documents from California’s top medical schools as part of an investigation into the agency’s alleged anti-Semitism.
Representative of the Chairperson of the House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee. Tim Wahlberg (R-Mich.) A two-week deadline was set for the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Medical School. The House is investigating how the university responds to reports that Jews “experienced hostility and fear” on campus.
Walberg’s letter requires the university to exchange “all documents and communications” since September 1, 2021, which is related to reports or complaints of anti-Semitism. It requires them to include “any communication between administrators or employees regarding complaints.”
“The committee has realized that Jewish students, faculty and patients have been experiencing hostility and fear at the university and has not yet proved that the university has meaningfully responded and mitigated the issue,” Wahlberg asserted in the letter.
Rep. Tim Wahlberg (R-Mich). (Photography by Oliver Contreras/AFP via Getty Images)
The letter to the UCSF cited events such as Jewish students, testifying to the committee that they “hidden their Jewish identity” while attending college.
In another case, a student allegedly told a Jewish student that “the Jewish control the bank.” A lab technician allegedly told the same Jewish student that Israel deserved what happened on October 7.
Wahlberg also sent a similar letter to the University of Illinois School of Medicine.
The House investigation is separate from the Trump administration’s review of UCLA’s anti-Semitism allegations. president Donald Trump’s The government has suspended $584 million in federal grants from UCLA after the Justice Department announced that the school violated the 14th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection clause in Chapter 6.
The administration said earlier this month that it had sought $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to address discrimination and anti-Semitism allegations in exchange for restoration of federal funds.
The proposed agreement was sent to the school on August 8, requiring the UCLA to pay $1 billion in multiple installments to the federal government and established a $172 million claim fund for alleged violations of Chapter VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits the use of race, color, religion, gender, gender, or state based on race, color, religion, gender, or state.
In a statement provided to Fox News Digital President James Milliken said the university system has received the document and is reviewing it.
“Earlier this week, we proposed a good-will dialogue with the (judicial) department to protect the university and its key research missions,” Millican said at the time. “As a public university, we are the stewards of taxpayer resources, payments of this scale will completely destroy the largest public university system in our country and cause great harm to our students and all Californians.”
“The Americans in this great country rely on crucial work UCLA and UC systems that save lives, develop the U.S. economy and protect our nation’s security. ”
The University of California, Los Angeles is conducting multiple investigations into its handling of anti-Semitic incidents on campus. (iStock)
“Requesting $1 billion from a leading publicly funded research institution is an abuse of taxation that will undermine the university’s mission to serve students and the public,” he said in a statement. “UCLA and the larger UC system have taken meaningful steps to demonstrate anti-Semitism on campus and protect Jewish students, faculty, and community members as a top priority.”
In July, UCLA agreed Pay $6 million Resolve lawsuits filed by Jewish students and faculty in handling anti-Israel protests in schools, including allowing protesters to ban Jews from a portion of a campus called the “Jewish Exclusion Zone.”
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UCLA, UCSF and UICM did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment Tuesday.
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