The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had settled a federal investigation over claims of antisemitic harassment in a Massachusetts school district. The agreement stipulates a process the school district will take in the future if a Jewish student claims ethnic harassment.
During school years between 2023 and 2025, there were multiple incidents of antisemitic harassment at the Concord-Carlisle, Massachusetts, School District, which included students calling Jewish students “Jew” in a derogatory way, and some students repeatedly drew swastikas, according to a press release issued by the DOJ. The district began implementing protocols to address these problems after the DOJ initiated its investigation, “including working with stakeholders and providing additional training to its employees on handling antisemitism incidents.”
