The Trump Administration filed a lawsuit on Friday against Harvard University, claiming it has failed to protect its Jewish and Israeli students from antisemitism. The school disputes the claims.

March 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department sued Harvard University on Friday, accusing the Ivy League school of failing to protect Jewish students in the wake of the war in Israel and Gaza.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration escalated its attacks on Harvard University on Friday, as it sued the Ivy League school to recover billions of dollars for allegedly ‌failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students. Harvard has been a central focus of the president's campaign to force changes at major U.S.…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department sued Harvard University on Friday, accusing the school of not doing enough to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment, in the latest effort by the Trump administration to challenge the Ivy League institution. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, said students were blocked from school buildings in 2023 and 2024 by protesters and forced to wear baseball caps to hide their yarmulkes, a traditional head covering worn by many observant Jewish men. “Harvard’s response to this: do nothing,” the suit said. “Its faculty and leadership turned a blind eye to antisemitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis. The lawsuit said Harvard violated civil rights law, as well as its own rules, by not doing more to stop the harassment. And the suit asks the court to order Harvard to take steps to protect students — including putting restrictions on protests — and give the federal government permission to halt further grant payments to the university. Harvard…