US EditionLawsuit: MIT professor harassed Israeli researcher, Jewish student as president stood by
- The Louis D. Brandeis Center filed a 71-page federal lawsuit on Wednesday against MIT accusing the university and tenured linguistics professor Michel DeGraff of enabling antisemitism on campus.
- The lawsuit alleges DeGraff harassed Israeli postdoctoral researcher Lior Alon and Jewish student Will Sussman, with MIT President Sally Kornbluth and administrators failing to act despite repeated complaints.
- DeGraff publicly posted Alon's personal information including his military service on social media, sent mass emails accusing a student of having a 'Jewish mind infection,' and threats escalated harassment leading to Sussman leaving MIT.
- The complaint calls MIT a 'breeding ground for hatred' after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, citing student protests with antisemitic chants, terror maps, and property defacement, and states President Kornbluth's silence emboldened the harassment.
- The lawsuit requests a jury trial and suggests MIT's alleged inaction violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; it follows similar successful Brandeis Center suits that led to policy changes at Harvard.
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MIT declined to investigate professor who harassed Jewish students: complaint
According to the complaint, the professor’s “harassment was so extreme and intolerable” the student felt he had to “leave MIT and abandon the course of study he had been pursuing.” By Alana Goodman, The Washington Free Beacon The Massachusetts Institute of Technology defended a professor who repeatedly harassed a Jewish student until he dropped out of school and an instructor who served in the Israel Defense Forces, according to a federal anti-d…
Jewish Professor's and Students' Lawsuit Against USC Dismissed
The plaintiffs just withdrew the case, though their counsel reports that they plan to refile in the next two weeks with additional allegations. For now, I thought I'd post about the March opinion in the case by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, in Doe Jewish USC Faculty Member 2004 v. USC, which dismissed an earlier version of the Complaint: Plaintiffs … bring claims relating to protests on Defendant's campus … regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Plai…
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