A federal appeals court agreed with a lower court to dismiss a complaint against MIT alleging it failed to curb antisemitism on campus during student pro-Palestinian protests.

“Little of what occurred can be deemed antisemitic merely because plaintiffs declare it to be so,” Circuit Judge William Kayatta wrote.

Katerina Boukin and Marilyn Meyers, two Jewish students, and the legal arm of StandWithUs , a “nonprofit education organization dedicated to supporting Israel and combating antisemitism,” brought the lawsuit against MIT in March of 2024 . It was dismissed in August of that year in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts when the court ruled that MIT did not act with deliberate indifference.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the suit in late Oct

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