Posted on 01/28/2026 11:09:59 PM PST by KingofZion
Two lawsuits alleging antisemitism—one involving Stanford University and another tied to the spring 2024 anti-Israel encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles—will move forward, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Jan. 22.
The Stanford case stems from a July lawsuit filed by the Brandeis Center on behalf of Shay Laps, a Jewish Israeli researcher who alleges that he faced “discrimination and insidious, malicious conduct intended to permanently tarnish his reputation and career” at a Stanford lab, including tampering with his research, being locked out of a lab and a fabricated sexual harassment complaint against him.
In a ruling issued on Jan. 20, Susan van Keulen, a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, stated that Laps plausibly alleged a defamation claim against Danny Chou, an associate pediatrics professor at the private university who ran the lab...
The second lawsuit, filed in April on behalf of four Jewish community members, targets activists connected to the UCLA encampment. The lawsuit alleges organizers created a “Jew exclusion zone” enforced “by the concrete threat of physical violence.”
Mark Scarsi, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, ruled on Jan. 20 that the UCLA suit can move forward against two of the defendants: National Students for Justice in Palestine and the People’s City Council.
The complaint describes repeated acts of violence and exclusion targeting Jews, widespread antisemitic imagery and slogans and efforts to establish new encampments near buildings named for Jews. The suit also alleges that both groups had organizers on the ground helping lead the encampment.
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About time.
White heterosexual men need to sue, too.
Rampant hate and discrimination
Certain concrete actions are illegal regardless of their motivation.
“Hate” is not a crime.
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