Harvard Discriminated Against Jews, U.S. Government Says In New Lawsuit

The federal government is suing Harvard over what the Justice Department’s complaint calls the university’s “toothless non-response to the ongoing relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination.”

The suit was announced with a traditional press release that included quotes from Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  The assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, who represented Trump as a private lawyer before he was elected in 2024, also posted to social media a video of herself describing it as “an important federal civil rights lawsuit.” She announced, “we look forward to litigating this case.” The Washington Free Beacon has learned that Trump himself has personally been calling Dhillon directly every so often to check in on the case.

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'Dezionize Jewish Consciousness': Columbia-Affiliated Seminary Picks Up Anti-Israel Academics Who Abruptly Resigned From Harvard

Harvard University's anti-Semitism task force described how the university's divinity school program on Religion and Public Life (RPL) presented a perspective "widely perceived as consistently anti-Israeli," noting that its head, Diane Moore, said her goal was to "dezionize the Jewish consciousness." Moore and her former deputy, Hussein Rashid, abruptly resigned in January 2025, but they weren't unemployed for long. The Columbia University-affiliated Union Theological Seminary (UTS) announced last month that they will lead a program about how religion "can be instrumental in just peacemaking."

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Indiana University’s Muslim Philanthropy Gave Fundraising Advice to ‘Sham Charity’ Bankrolling Hamas

An Islamic think tank at Indiana University has hosted multiple fundraising training events for a Turkish nonprofit that the Trump administration says is a "sham charity" secretly bankrolling the terrorist group Hamas.

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Harvard to Recruit at Jewish Day Schools After Study Finds Steep Decline in Jewish Enrollment

Harvard College’s dean of admissions and financial aid, William Fitzsimmons, says Harvard is following Brown University’s lead in admissions outreach targeting Jewish day schools, and that results so far this year have been encouraging.

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'Information Sharing and No Surprises': Qatar Demanded American Schools in Doha 'Be Aligned' in Wake of Oct 7, Emails Show

In the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, the Hamas-friendly regime in Qatar demanded that American universities operating campuses in Doha "be aligned and in touch" when it came to their official communications, emails released by the House Education Committee show. On the same day, the dean of Northwestern University’s campus in Qatar (NU-Q) refused to sign on to a statement from his colleagues in the United States criticizing an NU-Q professor who downplayed the attack.

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Columbia-Funded Legal Group Fights for Release of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago Documents Report in Wake of University’s $221 Million Settlement With Trump

The Knight First Amendment Institute, an activist legal group funded by Columbia University, has already lost two legal attempts to force the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report into President Donald Trump's handling of classified information. It's now hoping the third time will be the charm.

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In SXSW Appearance, Columbia Encampment Organizer Mahmoud Khalil Says It’s ‘Very Racist’ To Ask Him To Condemn Hamas

In an appearance at the South by Southwest festival on Sunday, Columbia University encampment leader Mahmoud Khalil said "it's very racist to ask a Palestinian" to condemn Hamas.

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Old Dominion Gunman, Convicted of Terrorism Charges, Was Released From Prison Early After Completing Drug Treatment Program: Report

The gunman behind the deadly attack at Old Dominion University was released early from federal prison after completing a drug treatment program, even though his terrorism conviction would have made him ineligible for a sentence reduction, the Associated Press reported Friday.

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Union Theological Seminary Pushes Event Featuring ‘Activist-Scholar’ Off Campus In Wake of Free Beacon Report

Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia University affiliate, said an event featuring Mohamed Abdou—a self-described "activist-scholar" who was banned from teaching at Columbia—could not proceed on its premises in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on that event. "Authorization for this event was initially obtained through the withholding of key information," a spokeswoman for seminary, […]

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UC Berkeley Allows SJP Chapter To Display Symbol Hamas Uses To Mark Israeli Targets

The University of California, Berkeley, is allowing its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter to include an inverted red triangle—a symbol Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets—in its logo. The image is displayed on an official university webpage for the group and is permitted to appear at its sanctioned events on campus.

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