Lawsuit accuses MIT professor of harassing Jewish students and faculty
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, along with co-counsel White & Case LLP, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The complaint accuses the university of standing idly by as faculty and students cultivated an environment rife with antisemitism and fear.
The 71-page filing outlines numerous incidents of severe antisemitism at MIT and claims DeGraff harassed, defamed and terrorized Jewish members of the university community without consequences. He is also accused of doxxing Dr. Lior Alon, an Israeli professor at MIT. Alon, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, is one of three plaintiffs, along with the Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Antisemitism and William Sussman.
The complaint alleges Sussman, a former doctoral student and president of MIT Graduate Hillel, left the university due to concerns for his personal safety, which he attributes in part to antisemitic hostility allegedly fueled by DeGraff.
MIT administrators knowingly failed to take action to eliminate the hostile climate and discrimination against them or to stop the retaliation, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Individual Plaintiffs were also subjected to outrageous and wrongful conduct that has resulted in severe emotional distress and extreme anxiety and anguish. The Individual Plaintiffs were also defamed by a MIT professor, the complaint states.
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