Federal Investigation Launched into Harvard's Alleged Antisemitism and President's Testimony Requested

The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is launching an investigation into Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism on campus. The investigation will focus on whether Harvard failed to respond adequately to incidents of harassment against students based on their Jewish ancestry or Israeli nationality. The complaint was filed by a Harvard alum who claimed that the university discriminated against students on the basis of national origin. The investigation comes in the wake of a first-year Israeli student being accosted by pro-Palestinian protesters during a demonstration. The OCR will collect evidence and aims for a prompt resolution of the complaint. University presidents from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania are also set to testify before Congress on the issue of antisemitism on campuses.