Here are plaintiff’s factual allegations, as reported in Monday’s decision by Judge Jacquelyn Scott Corley (N.D. Cal.). in Loggins v. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ.:
Dr. [Ameer Hasan] Loggins is a “black, African American, Muslim male[.]” He earned his doctorate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2019. Stanford hired him as a lecturer in August 2023.
On October 10, 2023, Dr. Loggins led two Stanford class discussions on settler colonialism and sought “to have a difficult dialogue” about “dehumanization, Israel, and Palestine.” He “wanted the focus to be on the Palestinian civilians. [Dr. Loggins] also wanted to complicate the ways in which many frame the Israel and Palestine ‘conflict,’ which is through the frame of Jewish people vs. Muslim people.” So, Dr. Loggins “asked whether any Jewish students were present in the classroom, in an effort to speak to the diversity within the Jewish diaspora and to demonstrate…
