Far-Left Judge Who Dismissed Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Virulently Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide

Of course he was.

It is depraved how the left has destroyed our most sacred institutions from within.

Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide

Richard Stearns was Bill Clinton’s roommate and protester pal at Oxford

By: Ira Stoll, WFB, August 18, 2026

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 information puts these rulings in a fresh light, at least for some who