Harvard students sue university for anti-Semitism

A group of Harvard students are suing the university for anti-Semitism. According to the information, the plaintiffs claim that the school has selectively applied its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment.

Likewise, students claim that the university has hired professors who support anti-Semitic violence. "Based on its track record, it is inconceivable that Harvard would allow any group other than Jews to be targeted for similar abuse or that it would permit, without response, students and professors to call for the annihilation of any country other than Israel," said the complaint to which Reuters attained access.

Harvard president's anti-Semitic comments

The lawsuit comes just after Claudine Gay resigned as president of the university. Gay made the decision after controversy arose over her anti-Semitic comments before Congress. University of Pennsylvania President, Liz Magill, also resigned under pressure over the remarks.

The House Education and Workforce Committee called Magill, Gay and Sally Kornbluth (president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to testify for their apparent support of anti-Semitic protests and incidents on their campuses due to the war between the terrorist group Hamas and Israel. Despite the warning, before the House, none of the three condemned the call for the genocide of Jews. Therefore, a bipartisan group of 74 congressmen sent a signed letter to the boards of directors of the respective study centers urging them to remove them from their positions.

The Harvard Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the university's governing organizations, met to discuss the controversy, and some business leaders and Harvard alumni disapproved of Gay and her counterparts for their lack of action in combating against anti-Semitism in their schools.