Jewish students renew efforts to sue SF State leadership, professor over alleged anti-semitism
Dozens rallied at San Francisco Federal Courthouse Wednesday after Jewish San Francisco State University students and community members filed a second complaint alleging discrimination and civil rights violations against a Palestinian professor and the university’s leadership.
A previous complaint filed last June on behalf of the plaintiffs by the the Lawfare project, a non-profit litigation fund with the self declared mission of protecting the”civil and human rights of the Jewish people worldwide,” was ordered dismissed by a U.S. district judge in March.
The new complaint, filed in March and amended in June, also implicates members of SF State’s administration, including President Leslie Wong, the SFSU board of trustees, and the California State University board of trustees in allegedly allowing a “culture of anti-semitism” to prevail on campus.
“We are here today to protect victims of discrimination whose complaints to SFSU and CSU have fallen on deaf ears for years,” said Amanda Berman, an attorney with the Lawfare Project, at a press conference held prior to a pre-trial hearing in the lawsuit on Wednesday.
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