A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a discrimination lawsuit filed against Harvard by a former student, who had accused the university of acting with indifference to his complaints about campus protesters who he said had harassed him because he is Jewish.

Judge Richard G. Stearns of the U.S. District Court in Boston said that Yoav Segev, who sued the university soon after completing his master’s program at Harvard Business School, “has not shown that he experienced severe and pervasive racial harassment.”

Segev’s complaint dated back to a well-publicized episode on campus in October 2023, when he was a student, during a “die-in” protest on the grass in front of the business school. Two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, tensions were high, and hundreds of pro-Palestinian students

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