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Judge slams 'imprecise' anti-Semitism definition
- Federal Judge Richard Gaylore Stearns dismissed antisemitism cases involving Harvard and MIT.
- As a student leader in 1967, Stearns signed a newspaper ad calling for Israel's total military withdrawal from territories won in the Six-Day War, which was seen as anti-Israel.
- During the 1972 McGovern presidential campaign, Stearns's past activism sparked controversy and heightened scrutiny in the Jewish community and media.
- Stearns was a friend of Bill Clinton, with whom he participated in antiwar protests in London in 1969; despite controversies, Clinton did not oppose his federal judgeship.
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Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide
The federal judge who has dismissed a series of antisemitism cases—by the Trump administration against Harvard, by Jewish students at MIT, and by a Harvard Business School student, Yoav Segev, who was assaulted by anti-Israel protesters—turns out to have his own history as a student anti-Israel and anti-war activist. The judge, Richard Gaylore Stearns, also found in a separate case that "Harvard failed its Jewish students." Yet the new informati…
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