A new court filing by the eight lawyers Harvard is paying to defend the university from student complaints of antisemitism says the Jewish students were being unreasonable when they feared violence at the hands of anti-Israel protesters on campus.
A federal lawsuit by Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum and Students Against Antisemitism, Inc. had reported that on October 19, 2023, a mob stormed Harvard Law School. “Fearing a violent attack, students in the study room removed indicia of their Jewishness, such as kippot, or hid under desks,” the complaint says.
In a June 18, 2024 court filing, lawyers for Harvard insist that the Jewish students do not “describe an environment in which an objectively reasonable person would fear physical violence.”
The filing carries the name of eight Harvard lawyers—Mark Kirsch, Gina Merrill, Zachary Fardon, and Zoe Beiner of King & Spalding, and Felicia Ellsworth, Seth Waxman, Bruce Berman, and Jeremy Brinster of WilmerHale. Waxman and Ellsworth of WilmerHale billed Harvard millions of dollars for an aggressive defense against a similar federal lawsuit brought over discrimination against Asian-Americans in college admissions that wound up with a Harvard loss at the Supreme Court.
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Author: Ruth King
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