A Stanford University lecturer has been suspended after asking Jewish students to raise their hands and sit in the corner during a public shaming stunt about the oppression of Palestinians.
The instructor reportedly asked Jewish and Israeli students to ‘identify’ themselves before telling them to grab their belongings and stand in a corner, saying: ‘This is what Israel is doing to the Palestinians,’ The Forward reported Thursday first reported.
“How many people died in the Holocaust?” he then asked the Jewish students of the class, to which they replied, ‘Six million.’ He allegedly responded: ‘Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer.’
He also reportedly said that Hamas represents the Palestinian people and the horrific acts of terror they committed over the weekend were 100 percent legal.
The Stanford instructor (pictured) reportedly asked Jewish and Israeli students to ‘identify themselves’ before telling them to grab their belongings and stand in a corner
Several students reported the disturbing incident they remembered to Rabbi Dov Greenberg, director of the Chabad Stanford Jewish Center, as “1930s vibes.”
“I waited to post this until it was confirmed by multiple sources I trust,” Shaun Maguire posted on X, mentioning Hasan Loggins. “It’s 1930s vibes.”
They identified the instructor as 46-year-old Ameer Hasan Loggins, a lecturer at Stanford Introductory Studies of Civic, Liberal, and Global Education, but at this point Stanford is keeping his identity anonymous.
Speaking to the Forward, Rabbi Greenberg said he was told by at least three students who were in the room that the instructor asked Jewish and Israeli students to identify themselves during a session for a required undergraduate course called ‘Civil, Liberal and Global Education. ‘
Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez sent a letter to the university community following the reports on Wednesday, claiming that the instructor is “not currently teaching while the university works to determine the facts of the situation.”
“We received a report of a class in which a non-faculty instructor reportedly addressed the Middle East conflict in a way that called out individual students in the class based on their backgrounds and identities,” it said. the letter. ‘Without pre-judging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students.’
The school then went on to confirm that ‘offensive speech’ is acceptable at Stanford, but illegal threats cross a line.
‘It is important to remember that controversial and even offensive speech is allowed, except when it crosses the line into certain illegal categories such as threats or harassment for which the threshold is quite high,’ the letter continues.
‘Unlawful threats and harassment will not be tolerated. Stanford also has content- and viewpoint-neutral time, place, and manner rules that limit locations for banners and signs. So many of the banners and signs were removed, because they were in places where they are not allowed.
‘Furthermore, it is worth remembering that while a climate of free expression requires breathing space, our aspiration as a community is for respectful and substantive discourse.’
The professor reportedly said that Hamas represents the Palestinian people and that the terrorist acts they committed over the weekend were 100 percent legal
Stanford University and President Richard Saller did not respond to DailyMail.com’s requests for comment.
Pro-Hamas protests have spread on college campuses across the country since the terror attacks in Israel.
Students at the University of Washington and across the country at Georgetown University gathered to praise the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 1,300 Israelis over the weekend and launched the region into a bloody war.
At the University of Washington, video footage captured several Jewish students in tears as they pleaded with an administrator to end the pro-Palestinian rally, where students condoned violence against Israel and the Jewish people.
‘They want our people dead. They want us killed,’ sobbed one student to an administrator who appeared to be listening but indicated there was something he could do.
“How do you allow this? Why don’t you stop at this?’ she asked through uncontrollable tears. “Please end it. Please,’ she begged.
The event at the campus’s red square was advertised by a radical student group who said their aim was to ‘raise the righteous Palestinian resistance’ and ‘condemn the colonial state of Israel’.
Flyers for the event include a drawing of a paraglider similar to the one used by militant Hamas terrorists to fly into southern Israel last Saturday and slaughter scores of innocent concertgoers.