Harvard and Students Against Antisemitism Announce Settlement of Lawsuit

 https://www.harvard.edu/media-relations/2025/01/21/press-release-settlement-harvard-saa/#:~:text=As%20part%20of%20this%20settlement,Harvard%2C%20represented%20by%20new%20counsel.

Today, Plaintiff Students Against Antisemitism and Harvard University announced that they have reached an agreement to resolve Students Against Antisemitism’s claims against Harvard. As part of the settlement, Harvard has agreed to undertake important actions to combat antisemitism on its campus, building on measures it has implemented over the past year. This resolution aligns with Harvard’s commitment to combating antisemitism and ensuring that its Jewish and Israeli students are welcome and able to thrive on its campus and that complaints of discrimination and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students are treated in the same manner and with the same urgency as all protected groups.

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Shabbos Kestenbaum

@ShabbosK

OUR STATEMENT ON HARVARD’S SETTLEMENT TODAY. PLEASE READ AND SHARE. 

A year ago, I decided to sue Harvard over their blatant Civil Rights violations and normalization of antisemitism on campus. 

Although certain Jewish nonprofits discouraged us, we charted a new path forward for young American Jewry, and I’m delighted that there are now more than a dozen such cases filed by heroic Jewish students across the country.

I am deeply grateful for the 4 other plaintiffs at Harvard who decided to join me. Although I wish they weren’t anonymous, their bravery is commendable.

Harvard, rather than apologize or recognize antisemitism on our campus, filed two separate motions to dismiss our case with prejudice. They lost. We are the first case of its kind to go to trial.