“Israeli chemist Shay Laps is suing Stanford University,” the California Globe reports, “for forcing him out of his lab job after he was targeted by workers in a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment that even included his supervisor fabricating sexual harassment charges against him.”
The lawsuit, filed by the Brandeis Center on July 10, charges that Laps endured “discrimination and insidious, malicious conduct” intended to permanently tarnish his career, tampered with his lab research, and fabricated a complaint against him “for being Israeli.” The Brandeis Center’s Rachel Lerman told Fox News, “This really made my jaw drop, the way they treated the guy, just unbelievable.”
Laps earned a PhD from Technion, one of Israel’s premier universities, and boasts an extensive record of achievement in his field. Highly recommended by prominent scientists, Laps came to Stanford in 2024 to develop a new insulin treatment. His Stanford colleagues, the lawsuit contends, “knew that he was Jewish and Israeli. From the moment he stepped foot in the lab, he was surrounded by hostility.”
Lab staffer Terra Lin told Laps never to speak to her and demanded that the Israeli sit apart from colleagues at lunch. In the style of other campus demonstrators, according to the lawsuit, Lin “took issue with his Jewish faith, history, and heritage as well as his Israeli national origin.”
As Rachel Lerman told the California Globe, “We are used to seeing anti-Semitism on campuses but we are seeing a trend of Israeli students at all levels being subjected to bias and discrimination in egregious ways. It is important to understand the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects discrimination based on national origin. You can’t do that. It is a whole separate category that people are aware of. In addition to his being Jewish and being protected on those grounds.” (emphasis added)
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Author: Ruth King
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