US EditionU.S. sues Harvard over treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, seeks billions of dollars
The DOJ alleges Harvard allowed antisemitic harassment, seeking to freeze over $2.6 billion in federal grants and recover funds due to civil rights violations.
- On Friday, March 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Harvard University in federal court in Massachusetts, alleging the institution violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
- Citing incidents since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, the administration claims the university was "deliberately indifferent" to hostility targeting Jewish and Israeli students, including stalking and jeering on campus.
- Federal prosecutors seek to recover billions in taxpayer funding while asking a judge to freeze more than $2.6 billion in existing research grants, escalating demands from earlier settlement negotiations that sought $1 billion.
- Harvard maintains it has taken "substantive, proactive steps" to address antisemitism, dismissing the lawsuit as a "pretextual and retaliatory action" by the administration for refusing to adopt federal policy positions.
- This action mirrors federal scrutiny of other institutions, including Columbia University, which settled for $200 million in July, testing the boundaries of government enforcement over university research funding and civil rights compliance.
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The Trump administration filed a new multimillion dollar lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, claiming that the institution is violating a civil rights law and has not protected Jewish and Israeli students from discrimination. The lawsuit calls on a federal judge to demand that the university return millions in grant payments and stop more than $2.6 billion in existing grants. The lawsuit marks the latest effort by President Donald Trum…
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The Justice Department sued Harvard University for allegedly violating Jewish students’ civil rights in the Trump administration’s latest attack on the university.
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In the Trump administration’s year-long battle with Harvard University threatening federal funding over alleged antisemitism, its precise concerns have emerged in fuzzy and piecemeal fashion — in comments from White House officials, administrative agency findings and letters to the university as a pressure campaign and negotiations dragged on. That changed Friday with a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice under Title VI of the Civil Right…
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