University Staffer Sabotaged Jewish Researcher’s Work To Make It Appear Fraudulent, Lawsuit Alleges

A Stanford University employee allegedly attempted to alienate and sabotage an Israeli researcher to get him removed from the university because he is Jewish, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.

The lawsuit filed by the Brandeis Center claims the researcher, Dr. Shay Laps, experienced “insidious, malicious conduct intended to permanently tarnish his reputation and career” at the university despite being an exceptional chemist, according to the press release. The employee targeting him allegedly has involvements with pro-Palestinian activists.

A lab staffer at Stanford allegedly instructed other researchers “to shun” Dr. Laps and told him not to speak to her, even when essential for work, according to the lawsuit. The staffer even allegedly sabotaged the Israelis’ research to produce “fraudulent” results.

“The incidents that took place on the Stanford University campus are exposing deep, dangerous biases against Jewish and Israeli students and faculty,” Hon. Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman and CEO of the Brandeis Center and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of 🎓Education, said in the press release. “Rather than stepping up to protect vulnerable students, the Stanford administration shrunk in the face of responsibility, took action only when needed to protect itself, and ignored the vehement instances of anti-Semitism plaguing their campus.”

“Stanford takes any allegation of antisemitism very seriously,” a university spokesman told the