Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79 · Jul 18, 2025

🧵This Harvard Jewish student, who was assaulted on campus, is suing. He says “Harvard did everything it could to…

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Summary

A Harvard Jewish student is suing the university, alleging it protected assailants who attacked him on campus, obstructed a criminal investigation, failed to discipline the attackers, retaliated against campus officers investigating the assault, and subjected him to antisemitic harassment. The lawsuit also claims Harvard created a separate list categorizing Jewish students as 'protestors' or 'peaceful' at events.

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🧵This Harvard Jewish student, who was assaulted on campus, is suing. He says “Harvard did everything it could to defend, protect, and reward the assailants; to impede the criminal investigation; and to prevent [him] from obtaining administrative relief from the University.”
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He alleges, “In addition to refusing to even assist the local prosecutor's investigation, Harvard directly instructed its campus officer to stop investigating the attack and then retaliated against him by removing him from the investigation.”
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He also claims that Harvard failed to properly investigate or discipline the assailants, saying it couldn’t discipline them while a criminal investigation was ongoing:
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He says he was told shortly after the attack that he couldn’t file an anonymous complaint, and then when he filed a non-anonymous one, Harvard claimed its investigation was already complete.
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He also alleges that Harvard delayed and then failed to cooperate with the criminal process: “We have made several requests to [Harvard] to look into this information, and they have been unwilling to follow up with us.”
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And he claims Harvard removed a campus officer who insisted on investigating:
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Meanwhile, the students involved received various awards and recognitions and were able to graduate:
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The details revealed in this lawsuit are extremely disturbing, including how the plaintiff was singled out by his assailants. And afterward he was blamed for the confrontation and subjected to all kinds of antisemitic rhetoric. Here are some examples from Sidechat:
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A new allegation: “At an HBS Middle East and North Africa ("MENA") Club event…the administrator handling sign-ins had a separate list of Jewish students at HBS who had RSVPed, and next to each Jewish student's name on the list was a notation of either ‘protestor’ or ‘peaceful.’”
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The complaint (which I still haven’t even fully summarized) is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…