Stanford Lab Director Launched Bogus Sexual Harassment Investigation Into Israeli Chemist, Prompting Him To Leave the School: Lawsuit

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A Stanford University lab director created a fake sexual harassment investigation as part of a campaign of "acute antisemitism and anti-Israel bias" against an Israeli chemist, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday. Israeli chemist Dr. Shay Laps alleges his colleagues at Stanford’s Danny Chou Lab created a hostile work environment in the months after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree over his Jewish and Israeli origins. Lab assistants allegedly sabotaged Laps’s diabetes research, prevented