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Several other schools have recently settled similar lawsuits, and suits are pending against others, including the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.

Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement announced on Tuesday.

The two settlements announced this week of antisemitism lawsuits against Harvard are modest steps forward for that university, but the bigotry against Jews is so entrenched at Cambridge and Boston that it will take a lot more than court documents to force change.

The Massachusetts university agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the plaintiffs, but it did not admit to any wrongdoing or liability.

Brandeis Center's complaint alleged that three Harvard Kennedy School students were discriminated against on the basis of their Israeli identities during a Spring 2023 course. Whe