Richard Stearns, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled last week that Yoav Segev, a graduate of Harvard Business School, failed to prove in a lawsuit that he had experienced “severe and pervasive racial harassment” at Harvard University.

Segev filed the suit in July, alleging that he was assaulted for being Jewish on campus and that Harvard rewarded his attackers and obstructed investigations into the matter.

Stearns ruled that there was no evidence that the attack was motivated by anti-Jewish hate. The assault occurred when Segev was filming an anti-Israel “die-in” protest on campus in October 2023, the same month as the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. (Jason Torchinsky, a partner at Holtzman Vogel who is representing Segev, declined to co

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