The Department of Health and Human Service's civil rights office accused Harvard University today of violating federal civil rights law "by acting with deliberate indifference towards harassment of Jewish and Israeli students by other students and faculty" since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel that launched the war in Gaza. In a news release, the office referred to federal funds Harvard received, noting that federal civil rights law "prohibits a recipient of Federal financial assistance from discriminating" against protected categories. "OCR’s Notice of Violation finds that Harvard has been — and is — deliberately indifferent to the...