Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, and the California Legislative Jewish Caucus stated that the Trump administration’s proposed $1 billion settlement with the University of California system over campus Jew-hatred is a “political shakedown.”

“This isn’t about protecting Jewish students. It’s a $1 billion political shakedown from the pay-to-play president,” the governor, state officials and Jewish legislators stated . “Trump has weaponized the Department of Justice to punish California, crush free thinking and kneecap the greatest public university system in the world.”

James Milliken, president of the university system, stated on Friday that the proposed settlement would “completely devastate” the University of California.

The signatories of the statement, all Demo

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