The scrapping of the lecture is the latest controversy for Harvard in what has been a week of turmoil for the Ivy League institution.

The litigation piece of the effort to hold Harvard accountable is, fortunately, not yet over. The only non-anonymous plaintiff in the case, Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum, who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has repeatedly testified before Congress on the topic, is moving ahead with discovery in the case.

Critics say the definition Harvard adopted conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism and could chill pro-Palestinian speech.

The lawsuits came after Harvard faced fierce criticism over its handling of anti-Israel protests that erupted on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. Jewish students alleged they were bullied, spat on, intimidated, threatened and subjected to verbal and physical harassment.

Harvard has reached settlements in a pair of legal disputes that claimed the university failed to protect Jewish students since Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel, agreeing to a series of reforms

Harvard University had to be dragged to court to make some small changes to prevent antisemitic outbursts on campus.

Harvard University's settlement of two Title VI lawsuits has sparked a heated debate over its impact on free speech and protections for Jewish students. The settlement, which includes the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the inclusion of Zionism as a protected category,

Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided Having an optional class focused on health effects of warfare, and featuring injured patients, strikes me as eminently allowable. To cancel such a class is censorious. https://t.co/Bd6iRLH61n

Harvard, which has seen its campus erupt in pro-Hamas demonstrations after the terror group launched its Oct. 7 attacks, has settled two separate lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination brought by The Louis Brandeis Center and the other filed by Students Against Antisemitism and Shabbos Kestenabaum.

Many universities have been reluctant to embrace a definition that, among other things, considers some criticisms of Israel as antisemitic. The university’s decision was part of a lawsuit settlement.

(THE CONVERSATION) As part of Harvard University’s agreement in response to two federal lawsuits filed by Jewish students alleging antisemitic discrimination, it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, “working definition” of antisemitism.

A day after the 47th president is sworn in, the nation’s oldest university pledges to protect the campus from antisemitism.