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Lesbian model-turned DEI manager is fired by university for posing in front of Israeli flag emblazoned with swastikas - and is now suing over claims her free speech rights were violated (Minnesota)
Daily Mail ^ | 4/27/24 | Martha Williams

Posted on 04/27/2024 3:29:34 AM PDT by Libloather

A model-turned DEI manager who was fired because she posed in front of an Israeli flag emblazoned with swastikas is now suing because her First Amendment rights were 'violated'.

Mashal Sherzad, 29, was fired from her position as the diversity, equity and inclusion manager at the University of Minnesota because of now seemingly deleted pictures that she accidentally uploaded onto her public social media of her posing in front of the controversial flag.

Sherzad, who identified as Muslim, and who is in a relationship with a woman, began her role in October, 2023, and travelled to Barcelona to attend a pro-Palestinian rally just two months later. She shared pictures of herself from the rally - including snaps of her posing in front of the swastika-embezzled Israeli flag.

She was removed from her DEI manager job for the university's School of Public Health on January 16 after the Dean, Melinda Pettigrew, said her employment would create a 'real risk of significant disruption.'

Sherzad has since filed a lawsuit against the school for violating First Amendment right to free speech - along with claims of discrimination.

'I did nothing wrong. They discarded a proud Queer, Muslim, Afghan and SWANA woman,' she has claimed.

She has asked to have her job reinstated and is requesting over $75,000 in damages.

The 29-year-old model uses Instagram to share pro-Palestinian content to her 4,000 followers. Her biography section suggests she has worked for famed modeling agency Ford - and Sherzad has shared scores of photos of her striking good looks.

She appears to have modeled herself on Kim Kardashian, with one snap showing a collage of her face next to that of the reality star, who has long denied rumors that her looks are the result of extensive cosmetic surgeries.

Sherzad has posted videos of herself...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: dei; israel; rights; speech
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Never really expected to see a headline like that on a nice Saturday morning, didja? Goes on the 'American history' pile.
1 posted on 04/27/2024 3:29:34 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
"'I did nothing wrong. They discarded a proud Queer, Muslim, Afghan and SWANA woman,' she has claimed."

OK. What is a 'SWANA woman?'?

2 posted on 04/27/2024 3:33:22 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Libloather

Bet she didn’t read her contract very carefully...


3 posted on 04/27/2024 3:34:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Libloather
Mama's little princess.


4 posted on 04/27/2024 3:36:51 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: sauropod

OK. What is a ‘SWANA woman?’?
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Supposedly it is Southwest Asian and North African.... but what it really stands for is Solid Waste Association of North America.


5 posted on 04/27/2024 3:42:15 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: sauropod

Celebrating Women in the Industry

https://blog.swana.org/celebratingwomen


6 posted on 04/27/2024 3:46:22 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Another in a long list of undesirables.

Deport this filthy skank immediately. /spit


7 posted on 04/27/2024 3:47:08 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Libloather

Don’t get an ideas, guys.... that thing is both toxic and GUILTY!!


8 posted on 04/27/2024 3:47:32 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Libloather
Sherzad, who identified as Muslim, and who is in a relationship with a woman...

This totally clueless woman needs to travel to Muslim countries and stay for a few months - - maybe give some speeches on the joy of being lesbian. Arabs love that stuff. /s

9 posted on 04/27/2024 3:49:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (.Has Nancy Pelosi called for the leader of Hamas to step down yet? If not, why not?)
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To: Libloather

She wasn’t prevented from expressing herself. Like everyone else she has to deal with the consequences.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean escape from penalties for odious and offensive statements.


10 posted on 04/27/2024 3:49:53 AM PDT by plangent
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To: Libloather

DEI = Didn’t Earn It!!!

Too Bad So Sad, go back to your massive audience of 4000.

Anybody noticed that slowly and quietly DEI managers and offices are being shut down in multiple locations? Maybe the tide is changing?


11 posted on 04/27/2024 3:50:39 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Libloather

If this Lesbo lived in a Muslim Country, she and her Girlfriend would be pushed
off a tall building.


12 posted on 04/27/2024 3:55:05 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Enterprise

Distribute these pics with her address to inhabitants in Riyadh Dubai and SA.

And let them know she likes women - see how long it takes before they see if she can fly. After being gangraped almost to death, of course.

I am sick of these vermin coming to our country and destroying it by using out freedoms agains us.


13 posted on 04/27/2024 3:58:09 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: sauropod
OK. What is a 'SWANA woman?'?

Something that requires penicillin?

14 posted on 04/27/2024 3:58:59 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Bump


15 posted on 04/27/2024 4:06:22 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Skank!! Throw the book at her and hit her in the face with it!!


16 posted on 04/27/2024 4:15:59 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: plangent

No, no, no, no, nope, nada, sorry, she pushed the line too far. Welcome to the fact that now she falls under the rules the left’s rules they pushed themselves.

Free speech goes out the window when the speech falls under the guise of “hate speech “

I’m waiting for the first KKK chapter to join forces with the anti Israel groups.


17 posted on 04/27/2024 4:23:41 AM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Enterprise

Another model with two asses.


18 posted on 04/27/2024 4:32:01 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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"Another model with two asses."

Three. One on her shoulder, one below her waist, and the third one on her girlfriend.

19 posted on 04/27/2024 4:34:40 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Flavious_Maximus

DEI is designed to pretend broken people can assimilate in a modern economy; disordered personalities with useless degrees with no marketable skills, shoehorned into the midst of real workers to pretend “it works”...


20 posted on 04/27/2024 4:46:37 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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