Yale Law School has dismissed an Iranian scholar and accused her of refusing to cooperate while investigating that she is involved in a group that calls the US a “Sham Charity” for a designated terrorist organization.
But Hyeh Doutaghi, an outspoken critic of Israel who worked at Yale on a visa as an associate research Scholar and deputy director of the School Law and Political Economy project, does not deny to cooperate. She believes she was fired because of her criticism of the war in Gaza, while colleges are confronted with financial pressure throughout the country to combat the anti -Semitism of the Trump government.
The school said in a statement that Doutaghi, 30, was terminated on March 28, after a few weeks after to answer personally to answer questions about “serious allegations” that include a possible connection with the Samidoun Palestinian prisoner Solidarity Network – who the US and Canada serve as an “Sham Charity in October” Palestine (PFLP) Terrorical Organization (PFLP) Terrorist organization (PFLP) Terrorist organization. “
Yale mentioned a placement on the Samidoun website that, according to him, identified Doutaghi as a member of the group among the materials that revised it. Samidoun has not returned an e -mail message to ask for comments.
However, Doutaghi said that posts was from 2022 when Samidoun was not referred to as a terror support group, and she said that Yale had not provided any evidence that she was involved in such a group.
Another web page mentioned Doutaghi as a speaker in an online panel discussion sponsored by Samidoun and other groups in October 2024. She said that she did not participate in that event because it was canceled or postponed and Samidoun was not the most important organizer of the discussion.
Asked by the Associated Press if she was a member of Samidoun if it was connected in a different way, she would only say that she is not involved in a group that violates American law.
Doutaghi and her lawyer, Eric Lee, said they offered to answer Yale's questions about her written preferences. Doutaghi said her concern about holding and deported was a factor not to want to appear personally.
“This has become part of fascism that is declining in this country, that people who dare to speak against genocide and the American support for it and complicity in it, they have to expect to pay the price with their career, with their livelihood, with their jobs, students with their jobs, students with their jobs, they have seen the target for deportation.
