The campus protests that garnered a lot of attention last fall died down once students left campus in the spring, but the problems they caused haven’t gone away. Last week U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns issued rulings on two different anti-Semitism lawsuits. First, he dismissed one directed at MIT.
The MIT lawsuit accused the university of approving antisemitic activities on campus and tolerating discrimination and harassment against Jewish students and faculty. In dismissing the lawsuit July 30, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns noted that MIT took steps to address on-campus protests that posed a potential threat to Jewish students.
“Plaintiffs frame MIT’s response to the conflict largely as one of inaction. But the facts alleged tell a different story,” Stearns wrote. “Far from sitting on its hands, MIT took steps to contain the escalating on-campus protests that,…
