Summers’ thread was an extraordinary broadside against Harvard — not just a rebuke of the University’s sitting leadership by a former president, but also a wide-ranging attack against individual instructors,

Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers lambasted the university’s current leadership over their response to campus antisemitism in a social media post Monday.

In the wake of Harvard’s decision to extend its non-discrimination policies to Zionists, University leaders assured professors who study the Israel-Palestine conflict that their speech will “ordinarily” be protected.

Ten universities are under scrutiny as a new task force has been unleashed to crack down on the unprecedented displays of antisemitism that have plagued U.S. campuses since Oct. 7, 2023.

A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that 10 Harvard University graduates filed last year, alleging the Ivy League school failed to respond to campus antisemitism during the war in Gaza.

making Harvard the second elite college to receive official guidance to address campus antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, after Stanford University last week.

Defamation League released an updated report card Monday assessing how US colleges combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students. The report, which uses a grading system of A to F, evaluated 135 schools — an increase from 85 schools in the first report.

Massachusetts institutions last year make up half of institutions with a failing grade. Now the state's universities are off the failing list entirely.

A federal antisemitism task force announced Friday it plans to visit 10 college campuses to assess whether they need “remedial action.”

Many Massachusetts colleges still coming up short in addressing antisemitism on campus, some schools have improved: ADL