BOSTON, Aug. 14 -- A federal judge's dismissal of the Trump administration's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University on Wednesday did not settle the question at the case's core: whether the university failed its Jewish students during the upheaval that swept across campus after October 7, 2023. It settled a narrower question: whether the administration had assembled enough evidence to prove that failure in court. The answer, Judge Richard G. Stearns of the U.S. District Court in Boston concluded, was no.

The ruling terminates a complaint the Justice Department filed in March 2026, accusing Harvard of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment during pro-Pal...