Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and others under her supervision have sued Harvard over the university’s “toothless non-response to the ongoing relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination.” Ira Stoll covers the lawsuit for the Washington Free Beacon and links to the 44-page complaint posted online here by the Department of Justice.
We have all witnessed the almost unbelievable nonfeasance of the Harvard administration in the face of the torment of Jewish students. There should be hell to pay. Stoll cruelly reports (links omitted):
The new federal complaint relies heavily on facts described in the report of Harvard’s own Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias. That makes it difficult for Harvard to dismiss the facts or characterizations in the report, because the task force was made up largely of Harvard professors picked by Harvard’s president. Harvard can claim the situation has since been remedied, but, in that regard, an inconvenient truth is that not all of the task force’s recommendations have been implemented. While the pace of disruptive anti-Israel public protests on the campus has slowed, and while the anti-Israel activists are whining about what they characterize as “politically motivated terminations of leaders at Harvard’s scholarly centers that include programming on Palestine,” egregious incidents of bigotry persist to this day. So does robust “programming on Palestine”; Harvard’s English and history departments paid a $35,000 honorarium and $7,500 in travel expenses “for a 5 star hotel” to have Ta-Nehisi Coates appear on campus on September 24, 2025, the second day of Rosh Hashana, and “read from his chapter on Palestine,” according to documents released this week by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. An Arab Conference at Harvard is scheduled for April 17-19, 2026, and is described by organizers as “the largest Arab Conference in North America.”
Let that sink in: “Harvard’s English and history departments paid a $35,000 honorarium and $7,500 in travel expenses ‘for a 5 star hotel’ to have Ta-Nehisi Coates appear on campus on September 24, 2025, the second day of Rosh Hashana, and ‘read from his chapter [in Coates’s book The Message] on Palestine,’ according to documents released this week by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.”
I only have one thing to say. Thank you, AAG Dhillon.
What I did today at work before 10 am! (With an incredible team @CivilRights!) https://t.co/HFzOGiBcAF
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) March 20, 2026
