NYU settles antisemitism lawsuit, court spokeswoman says

New York University has settled a lawsuit by Jewish students who accused the school of encouraging and failing to stop antisemitism on campus, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan federal court said on Monday.

A hearing in the case that had been scheduled for Tuesday has been canceled, the spokeswoman said.

No details on the settlement were immediately available.

The lawsuit filed on November 14 was among the earliest of the now many lawsuits accusing major universities including Carnegie-Mellon, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania of failing to stop and even encouraging antisemitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel.

The NYU plaintiffs accused the school of violating federal civil rights law by enforcing its anti-discrimination policies unevenly, including by allowing chants such as “gas the Jews” and “Hitler was right” while ignoring other bigotry.

NYU had previously argued that it has moved “decisively” to root out antisemitism on its campus, and that the lawsuit by Jewish students claiming they have been mistreated should be dismissed.