Harvard’s Politics Likely Irrelevant to Israeli Professor’s Suit

Harvard University and the response of its former President Claudine Gay to antisemitism on campus in 2023 aren’t relevant to an Israeli professor’s breach of contract lawsuit over his tenure denial, a Massachusetts judge suggested Wednesday.

“I’m just worried it’s going to be a giant distraction,” Judge Christopher Barry-Smith said during a hearing on what evidence can be brought up in an upcoming trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court, Middlesex County.

Shmuel Rubinstein, a professor of applied physics at Harvard, claims the university breached its contract by unlawfully denying him tenure. Rubinstein said the university broke its own tenure policies ...