EVANSTON, Ill. - Students at Northwestern University sued the school over required antisemitism training that they argue is unfair to Palestinians and violates the Civil Rights Act.

The lawsuit was filed last week in federal court by a group called Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine and other individual students.

What we know:

The students claim that antisemitism training required by Northwestern silences criticism of Israel and that the school coerces students to complete the training by blocking those who don’t complete it from registering for classes.

About three dozen students have refused to complete the training for "moral, political, and/or identify-based grounds," according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs argued that Northwestern "does not police the identities o

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