US judge orders partial restoration of UCLA funding suspended after pro-Palestinian protests
A US federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore part of the grant funding it recently froze for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco said the suspensions violated a June preliminary injunction, in which she had ordered the National Science Foundation (NSF) to reinstate dozens of grants it terminated at the University of California.
That order also blocked the agency from cancelling other grants within the university system. “NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction,” Lin wrote in her ruling.
Last week, UCLA said the government had frozen $584m in funding. US President Donald Trump had previously threatened to cut federal funds to universities over pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Protesters say the government wrongly equates criticism of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and its occupation of Palestinian territory with anti-Semitism, and advocacy for Palestinian rights with support for extremism.
