Antisemitism, Harvard University
Harvard, which has seen its campus erupt in pro-Hamas demonstrations after the terror group launched its Oct. 7 attacks, has settled two separate lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination brought by The Louis Brandeis Center and the other filed by Students Against Antisemitism and Shabbos Kestenabaum.
Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement announced on Tuesday.
Critics say the definition Harvard adopted conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism and could chill pro-Palestinian speech.
Harvard on Thursday laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates.
Harvard has agreed to strengthen its policies against antisemitism and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism.
Harvard University settled legal claims alleging the Ivy League school didn’t do enough to protect Jewish students against a wave of antisemitism on campus. As part of the settlements announced Tuesday,
Staff told the Crimson, the Harvard student newspaper, that they were not given any advance notice of the decision Thursday to lay off staff and outsource research to American Ancestors of Boston.
A day after the 47th president is sworn in, the nation’s oldest university pledges to protect the campus from antisemitism.
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