Israeli Scientist Strikes Back Shay Laps sues Stanford for anti-Semitic harassment and fabrication of sexual harassment charges. by Lloyd Billingsley
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/israeli-scientist-strikes-back/
“Israeli chemist Shay Laps is suing Stanford University,” the California Globe reports, “for forcing him out of his lab job after he was targeted by workers in a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment that even included his supervisor fabricating sexual harassment charges against him.”
The lawsuit, filed by the Brandeis Center on July 10, charges that Laps endured “discrimination and insidious, malicious conduct” intended to permanently tarnish his career, tampered with his lab research, and fabricated a complaint against him “for being Israeli.” The Brandeis Center’s Rachel Lerman told Fox News, “This really made my jaw drop, the way they treated the guy, just unbelievable.”
Laps earned a PhD from Technion, one of Israel’s premier universities, and boasts an extensive record of achievement in his field. Highly recommended by prominent scientists, Laps came to Stanford in 2024 to develop a new insulin treatment. His Stanford colleagues, the lawsuit contends, “knew that he was Jewish and Israeli. From the moment he stepped foot in the lab, he was surrounded by hostility.”
Lab staffer Terra Lin told Laps never to speak to her and demanded that the Israeli sit apart from colleagues at lunch. In the style of other campus demonstrators, according to the lawsuit, Lin “took issue with his Jewish faith, history, and heritage as well as his Israeli national origin.”
As Rachel Lerman told the California Globe, “We are used to seeing anti-Semitism on campuses but we are seeing a trend of Israeli students at all levels being subjected to bias and discrimination in egregious ways. It is important to understand the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects discrimination based on national origin. You can’t do that. It is a whole separate category that people are aware of. In addition to his being Jewish and being protected on those grounds.” (emphasis added)
Lin ramped up the hostility by tampering with Laps’ research, blatant scientific misconduct that could easily sabotage a career. Laps complained to lab director Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, a Harvard alum who, according to the lawsuit, failed to address the situation. Chou then told Laps that a Stanford undergraduate had accused him of sexual harassment. That turned out to be false, but part of an effort to force Laps off campus, damage his career, and block inquiry into misconduct at Stanford, which denies any wrongdoing.
The Laps case follows anti-Semitic harassment at California State Polytechnic University in Humboldt County, where Jewish students were “pelted with fake blood, subjected to anti-Semitic slurs and forced out of parts of campus.” The administration’s response was to tell Jewish students to hide their Jewish identity. Administrators rebuffed claims from harassed Jewish students and failed to take action to support them.
In similar style, the University of California at Davis has become one of the most anti-Semitic schools in the country, rivaling Columbia and UCLA. Assistant professor Jemma DeCristo tweeted threats to “Zionist journalists,” accompanied by photos of a cleaver, and axe, and blood. During an “emergency teach-in” UC Davis faculty labeled Israel as “racist,” “genocidal,” “oppressive” and so forth.
Crass left-wing anti-Semitism has also infested high schools of the Santa Clara Unified School District in the silicon valley cities of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Cupertino. California Jewish groups charge “pervasive discrimination and bias against Jewish students” including “anti-Semitic slurs directed against Jewish students, demonization of Jewish and Israeli students,” and “anti-Semitic content and programming by teachers and guest speakers.” One high-school teacher subjected students to a Turkish government propaganda video comparing Israel’s war with Hamas to the Holocaust.
“Anti-Israel activism has been widespread on US campuses before and since the October 2023 invasion of Israel,” explains the Times of Israel in its report on the Laps case, “but the science fields are seen as less prone to turmoil than social sciences, like ethnic studies.” Consider recent turmoil in the scientific fields of molecular biology, biochemistry and virology in particular.
In early 2020, before CDC official Dr. Nancy Messonnier announced the arrival of a “novel virus” in America, Israeli medical scientist Dr. Dany Shoham, published from “China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu.” Dr. Qiu shipped a cargo of deadly pathogens from Canada’s National Microbiological Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg to four institutes involved in China’s biological weapons development, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
In 2017-18 alone, Qiu made at least five trips to the Wuhan lab, the most likely source of the Covid virus that ravaged America and the world. It’s hard to find any reference to Dr. Shoman’s landmark study from Dr. Anthony Fauci and officials in the CDC. Is it possible that Dr. Shoham’s Israeli national origin was a factor?
The treatment of Shay Laps suggests that it is, and the case confirms another reality. Advanced degrees in scientific disciplines are no bar to the noxious brand of anti-Semitism now on full display at Stanford and across California.
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