r researchers in the lab to shun Laps,” the Brandeis Center stated. (According to the suit, Lin also tried to “frustrate, delay or inhibit” Laps’s requests for research materials and equipment, at one point referring him to a colleague recovering in the hospital from a major car accident.)
According to the Brandeis Center, she tampered with Laps’s research, “producing fraudulent results behind his back that could have ruined his career and encouraging him to discard all evidence of her tampering.” It added that when Laps found out about such sabotage, the lab’s leader and his mentor “refused to address the issue.”
The following month, Chou told Laps that Stanford would launch a Title IX investigation against him over a complaint of sexual harassment from an undergraduate student, urging him to leave the lab to avoid the investigation and to save his reputation.
No complaint had been made. It was a lie.
Laps filed a discrimination complaint with the university about his treatment in Chou’s lab, prompting the university to open an investigation. In response, Chou terminated Laps, deactivated his badge and locked him out of the lab, according to the lawsuit. His access was later restored when Stanford intervened.
Stanford concluded that Laps, who has since resigned from Stanford and left the country, did not face discrimination, nor did Chou retaliate against him. The lawsuit alleges that those conclusions were “predetermined.”
In other words it seems clear enough that this Jewish researcher was subject to the most blatant antisemitic abuse – and Stanford University tried to bury it.
Lerman told JNS that the Brandeis Center sees “it as part of a trend that we’re seeing lately with universities very badly treating Israeli students and postdocs.”
The state of American academia…
