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Published by The Jerusalem Post on 4/27/2025 Two Columbia University janitors claiming to have been held hostage during campus protests last year are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, the Free Press reported on Saturday. The lawsuit, filed by Torridon Law and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human […]

Published by The Free Press on 4/26/2025 The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, according to a copy of the suit reviewed exclusively by The Free Press. The lawsuit was […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 4/24/2025 or a brief moment, it looked like 2024 all over again: Tents were erected at Yale University’s central plaza on Tuesday night, with anti-Israel activists hoping to loudly protest the visit of far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to campus. Videos of students in keffiyehs, shouting protest slogans, […]

Published by The Washington Post on 4/22/2025 Harvard University sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, the latest move in the escalating feud between the nation’s wealthiest school and the White House. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against multiple federal agencies, seeks to block the Trump administration from withholding federal […]

Published by The New York Times on 4/22/2025 In the three months since President Trump returned to power, his administration has prized speed and shock value. Harvard University is wagering that White House strategy could be used against it. The 51-page lawsuit the university filed on Monday, intended to fight the administration’s freeze of billions in federal […]

Published by The New York Sun on 4/16/2025 The fiscal and political quandary facing Harvard is about as dire as it comes. Some $2.2 billion in federal funds have been frozen, and another $7 billion more is on the line. An adversarial president is threatening its non-profit status, calling it “a Political Entity.” The very […]

Published by The Boston Globe on 4/15/2025 As Harvard University prepares for a titanic showdown with the Trump administration over its academic independence, the president on Tuesday threatened the school’s tax exempt status while the first effects of a $2 billion freeze in federal funding began to be felt on campus. Others also argued that […]

Published by The New York Times on 4/15/2025 Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat antisemitism. The government had made some straightforward demands, like requiring the school to ban masks, which are often favored by protesters. But other demands seemed […]

Published by KQED on 4/14/2025 Swastika graffiti in a campus bathroom, chants of “death to Jews,” Hamas Hello Kitty stickers and the physical assault of Jewish students. These are among the incidents detailed in discrimination complaints against California universities since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Now, at least 17 colleges in the state are in […]