Jewish students sue Harvard, alleging lack of action against antisemitism on campus
ABC News
A group of Jewish students at Harvard University have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the school fosters antisemitism.
A group of Jewish students at Harvard University has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the school has "become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment" and alleging the administration has failed to protect them.
The lawsuit, on behalf of members of the Students Against Antisemitism Inc., was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston and asks a judge to compel the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university to enforce rules already on the books to protect Jewish students on campus and discipline classmates who violate them.
"Jewish students on campus have been subjected to a really hostile environment in which they have been intimidated, harassed and in some instances physically assaulted because they're Jewish," attorney Marc Kasowitz, who is representing the Jewish students in the legal action, told ABC News Thursday. "Right now, the Jewish students on campus at Harvard are afraid for their own physical safety and to express their views about current events."
The lawsuit comes about a week after Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard University, resigned amid plagiarism allegations and a backlash over her answers at a Congressional hearing to questions about antisemitism on U.S. college campuses.
A spokesperson for Harvard University issued a statement Thursday to ABC News, saying, "We do not comment on pending litigation."
