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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 13 Aug 202613 Aug 2026<\/p>\n
A federal judge in the United States has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the administration of US President Donald Trump claiming Harvard University did not do enough to protect Jewish students.<\/p>\n
The legal filing was one of many actions taken by the Trump administration in response to how top universities responded to pro-Gaza protests amid Israel\u2019s genocidal war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
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The administration has repeatedly claimed administrators did not adequately protect students against anti-Jewish actions during the demonstrations.<\/p>\n
Protest organisers have long rejected the premise, saying the administration has willfully conflated criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism while using isolated anti-Jewish actions to justify crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit filed in March by the Department of Justice charged that Harvard\u2019s \u201cfaculty and leadership turned a blind eye to antisemitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said Harvard\u2019s actions were not in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination \u200cbased on race, colour and national origin in programmes that receive federal funding.<\/p>\n
But Judge Richard Stearns said on Thursday the Trump administration\u2019s lawsuit had \u200cnot shown evidence of the claimed violation.<\/p>\n
Stearns said the incidents highlighted in the legal filing were \u201ctoo isolated and episodic\u201d to support the claim of ongoing civil rights violations.<\/p>\n
Trump had previously moved to freeze $2.2bn in federal funding to Harvard, in what the university\u2019s lawyers have called an effort to leverage research money in exchange for allowing the administration to \u201cmicromanage\u201d the institution.<\/p>\n
A federal judge last year ruled<\/a> that the freeze was unlawful.<\/p>\n Questions of academic freedom<\/p>\n Harvard, which has an endowment valued at more than $56bn, has stood apart from other top universities for its defiant approach to the administration.<\/p>\n Several others, including Columbia University, Northwestern University, and Cornell University, chose to reach multimillion-dollar settlements<\/a> with the Trump administration to preserve funding in response to a series of allegations, including their response to pro-Palestine protests, as well as hiring and admissions practices.<\/p>\n Critics have noted the emphasis on anti-Semitism comes as the administration has used immigration enforcement to crack down on pro-Palestine advocates.<\/p>\n In July, Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who has been targeted for deportation, in part, for his involvement in the demonstrations, filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging a \u201cpublic-private\u201d partnership to silence pro-Palestine voices.<\/p>\n