NIAC
has called on Stanford to take disciplinary measures and to clarify the
university’s position regarding racially discriminatory remarks made
about Iranians by a professor.
Stanford Professor’s “Answers to All Questions Iranian”
Washington,
DC – A Stanford professor has come under fire for making
discriminatory, anti-Iranian remarks through email correspondence and
web postings.
In one email to an Iranian graduate student, the
professor responded to an inquiry about admission to his department
saying, “even if I were in a position to help, I will not help Iranian
students until Iran recognizes and respects Israel as the land of the
Jewish people.” The professor went on to write, “If Iranians want the
benefits of Stanford and other institutions in the US, they have to
respect the values we hold in the US…”
The professor’s public
Stanford website includes a page entitled “Answers to All Questions
Iranian,” in which he expresses his political views on questions such as
why the US shot down an Iranian airliner in the 1988 or why the CIA
deposed Iranian Prime Minister …
