By Lilah Hosni —
A Business School student was reportedly assaulted for being a Jew. Threw Jewish students in the Kennedy School were prevented from addressing the issue of Israel as a Jewish democracy. Widespread harassment and hostile speech (“From the River to the Sea…”) and antisemitic conduct.
Welcome to Harvard University, arguably America’s most auspicious institution of higher learning, fertile soil for hatred of Jews.
A civil suit brought against Harvard prevailed, but a Department of Justice Title VI suit was thrown out in August.
“Previously, the Justice Department had simply tried to move very quickly, cut some corners and freeze funding to Harvard, and a different federal district court judge says that’s too quick. You need to go through the process,” says Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
“This time the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Department went through the process and they’re saying now it’s too slow because the period of time between the alleged incidents and the filing in court was too long,” Marcus adds. “Well, if both decisions hold, then one could never have a successful Justice Department Title VI case in the District Court in Massachusetts involving either anti-semitism or anything else.”
Title VI was part of the 1964 Civil Right legislation, stating, “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
The Dept. of Justice has brought very few suits in recent memory, and throwing water on it brings a chill over the hopes for achieving equality in America.
Marcus, who led the successful civil suit against Harvard, said the DoJ should appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, reporting from the New York Times indicates that Harvard has cleaned up its act to a large degree. “I think now, coming here two years after, is completely a different experience,” student Guy Almoznino told the Times. “I feel safe. I feel safe to say I am Israeli.”
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns threw out the Justice Department’s antisemitism/Title VI lawsuit against Harvard on Aug. 13. He did not rule that Harvard had done nothing wrong or that antisemitism hadn’t occurred. Instead, he held that DOJ had failed to plausibly allege that Harvard was currently and institutionally violating Title VI.
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