A federal task force sent a letter to the Ivy League this week, saying the university violated civil rights laws that require colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin.
Investigators found Harvard was at times "a willful participant in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff.” It further said campus leaders allowed anti-Semitism to fester on its Massachusetts campus.
Zachary Marschall,editor of Campus Reform, talked to AFN talked, stating that this is the least surprising thing he’s read all week.
"Of course, Harvard failed Jewish students. They failed to uphold their Title VI obligations to protect Jewish students, and if you look at the final antisemitism report that its task force wrote in April, this was part of the culture and a structural issue at Harvard," Marschall explains.
He said there was a choice either to dismiss and wave off concerns or to worry about Jewish students' safety on campus.

"They had to be cajoled into caring about Jewish students or at least pretend to care about them publicly,” Marschall states.
Harvard said it strongly disagrees with the government findings and is committed to fighting bias. The university released a statement stating that antisemitism is a serious problem and is unacceptable no matter the context.
"Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community," the statement further read.
However, Marschall thinks that Harvard has not done anything meaningful on its own accord.
After the attack on October 7, 2023, 34 Harvard student groups signed a statement holding Israel responsible for the war between Israel and Hamas. The statement was met with intense backlash from federal lawmakers and university professors, but Harvard continues to a harbor a sentiment of anti-Semitism.
“I think all the steps they've done since October 2023 have been the result of outside pressure, which is a good example that outside pressure does work when you put it on universities, to not only be accountable to their students but to treat everyone equally and protect everyone equally," Marschall says.
Marschall states that it still has not been enough because there is still a culture of resistance and indifference to addressing anti-Semitism in Harvard. A culture, he said, this new report confirms.
"They've just completely failed on every level."