Former Chancellor Claudine Gay's disgrace hearing had shaken public opinion about leniency toward anti-Semitism on campus Harvard it will be bad. Some Jewish students filed a lawsuit against the university, which is guilty of becoming “a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred.” The lawsuit adds to those filed against the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania.
The Jewish student group pointed the finger at Harvard for this Violation of civil rightsas tolerated by the university Harassment, assault and intimidation. After October 7, the day of the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas militants, violence increased exponentially. “Crowds of pro-Hamas students and faculty marched in the hundreds across the Harvard campus, shouting vile anti-Semitic slogans and calling for the death of Jews and Israel,” the lawsuit says, as reported by the Guardian: “These crowds occupied buildings. “, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, squares and study halls, often for days or weeks, to promote violence against Jews.” Let us remember that pro-Palestinian students occupied the campus for 24 hours in a row.
Marc Kasowitz, a partner at the law firm that filed the lawsuit (Kasowitz Benson Torres), said in a statement that the litigation was necessary because Harvard “would not voluntarily fix its deep-rooted anti-Semitism problem.” A university spokesman said there would be no comment on the matter and recalled that the conduct of a dozen students on campus who allegedly took part in pro-Palestinian activities was being investigated.
The outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas had Effects unpredictable on college campuses across the United States. On more than one occasion, Jewish students have denounced the failure of universities to protect them from harassment and intimidation. As expected, after the congressional hearings of the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT, the debate took on even more heated tones: the failure to condemn the anti-Semitic incidents caused such a storm that Liz Magill had to resign from her post as provost of Penn. The same fate befell Gay, who also had to face serious accusations of plagiarism. Recall that the US Department of Education has repeatedly called on universities to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on campus and has threatened to terminate federal funding.