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Yeshiva World News · Aug 13, 2026

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A federal judge in Boston dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit accusing Harvard University of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment amid anti-Israel protests following the October 7 massacre. Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the government had not plausibly shown an ongoing violation of federal civil rights law, calling the cited antisemitic incidents “too isolated and episodic” to establish that Harvard was out of compliance.

A federal judge in Boston dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit accusing Harvard University of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment amid anti-Israel protests following the October 7 massacre. Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the government had not plausibly shown an ongoing violation of federal civil rights law, calling the cited antisemitic incidents “too isolated and episodic” to establish that Harvard was out of compliance.

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