A Stanford University lecturer was put on leave after he was outed for allegedly calling Jewish students “colonizers” and having them stand in a corner as he praised Hamas “freedom fighters.”

His abhorrent actions also reportedly included making light of the Holocaust.

The lecturer was identified as Ameer Hasan Loggins by Campus Reform. According to students the first thing he did in two separate freshman classes on Tuesday was announce that the lesson for the day would focus on colonialism, the co-presidents of Stanford’s Israeli Student Association told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview.

The New York Post reported that he went on to blame “the war now raging between Israel and Hamas on ‘Zionists’ – supporters of a movement for the protection of an independent Jewish state.”

This is blatant antisemitism at @Stanford “ When a student answered, “Six million,” Hasan Loggins said, “Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer.” This professor was CLEARLY searching for and targeting Jewish students and has only been put on leave..

— Naomi #houseofmoderna ✡️ (@nantienomi) October 12, 2023

The radical lecturer also allegedly gave cover to Hamas’ slaughter of over 1,300 Israelis over the weekend, claiming it was part of their resistance effort.

“The teacher then asked Jewish students to raise their hands, separated them from their belongings and ordered them to stand in a corner, saying that is what Jews were doing to Palestinians, according to Nourya Cohen, one of the Israeli association presidents,” the New York Post wrote.

“He asked how many Jews died in the Holocaust,” Cohen recounted. A student replied six million and “he said, ‘Yes. Only six million.’”

She went on to say that the incident left her feeling “dehumanized.”

“It’s like I’m reliving the justification of Nazis 80 years ago on today’s college campus,” she told Jewish news outlet Forward.

I was waiting to post this until it was confirmed by multiple sources I trust (that are @Stanford)

Just read this. Hopefully widely reported on tomorrow

These are 1930s vibes pic.twitter.com/PbPBbLYSZf

— Shaun Maguire (smc.eth) (@shaunmmaguire) October 13, 2023

Rabbi Dov Greenberg, director of the Chabad Stanford Jewish Center, said Hasan Loggins declared that “Colonizers killed more than six million. Israel is a colonizer.” That was based on three students the rabbi spoke to according to Forward.

In what was apparently an exercise intended to target Jewish students, the lecturer asked them to state where their ancestors were from. As the students did so, he labeled them a “colonizer” or “colonized” based on their heritage, according to Cohen and co-president Andrei Mandelshtam.

As one student proudly declared that his ancestors were from Israel, the lecturer reportedly quipped, “Oh, definitely a colonizer.”

“Rabbi Greenberg said the students he had spoken to told him they were afraid to speak out in class and came away feeling traumatized. They said the lecturer made no mention of Hamas’ atrocities against Israelis and offered a full-throated defense of the terrorists’ actions,” the New York Post stated.

“He said, ‘Hamas is a legitimate representation of the Palestinian people,’” Greenberg commented. “‘They are not a terrorist group. They are freedom fighters. Their actions are legitimate.’”

Ameer Hasan Loggins

Stanford Lecturer https://t.co/vYqfm38Gd9 pic.twitter.com/ylU4VVqvmA

— fndati0n.eth (@fndati0n) October 13, 2023

A statement was released on Wednesday by Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez announcing Hasan Loggins’ suspension after he “addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities.”

The university has opened an internal investigation into the lecturer. They claim he is a teaching assistant and is not an actual member of the faculty.

“Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students,” Stanford administrators contended in the statement. “The instructor in this course is not currently teaching while the university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.”

Saller and Martinez both condemned “all terrorism and mass atrocities,” including Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians. They weakly described it as a “moral matter.”

According to Campus Reform, “In 2017, The New York Times ran the report ‘The Awakening of Colin Kaepernick’ that credited Hasan Loggins with exposing the football player to radical texts as the quarterback became more prominent in the Black Lives Matter movement.”

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