Criticizing Israel isn't necessarily proof of anti-Semitism, judge says in tossing suit against Harvard by man who says he was roughed up at a pro

A federal judge in Boston today dismissed a Jewish Harvard Business School student's suit against Harvard that alleged Harvard let its anti-Semitism fly by failing to do anything about what "an antisemitic mob of students and student-employees" he says physically assaulted him at a pro-Gaza "die in" at the business school in 2023.

In his ruling dismissing the suit by Yoav Segev, US District Court Judge Richard Stearns wrote:

While the court does not condone an assault on a fellow student by campus protestors, nothing in the Amended Complaint plausibly supports the notion that his assailants' conduct was motivated by race-based antisemitism. At best, Segev notes that he was overtly wearing a blue bracelet symbolizing his support for Israel. But it is not clear that protestors understood t