PNN – Halieh Dotaghi, the Iranian vice-chancellor of a Yale Law School project whose collaboration with the university was suspended due to allegations of ties to the pro-Palestinian group Samadoun, criticized US policies in the Middle East and said that the US is dragging the world into a wider war in West Asia.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Iranian-born researcher wrote in a statement on the social network X on Tuesday night: On Friday, Quds Day, and just days before we celebrated our second Eid al-Fitr in the shadow of the ongoing genocide against our families, Yale Law School terminated my contract for speaking out against the Zionist atrocities in Palestine.
She added: This action is part of a widespread and violent repression of students and faculty in this country. We are seeing universities like Yale, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard normalizing fascist governance.
Dutaki emphasized that “I stand by my position and will not cooperate with the Zionist forces that represent and defend the interests of the perpetrators of genocide, and I will not legitimize the process that is run by Zionist actors and the interests of the regime that pursues infanticide as a policy.”
The pro-Palestinian researcher said that in its letter terminating her collaboration with Yale Law School, she was accused of being associated with the “Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network” known as “Samdoun.”
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Dutagi emphasized that the termination of her cooperation contract was based on “unproven accusations.”
Regarding America’s support for the crimes of the Zionist regime, she noted: Now is a pivotal and historic moment in the decline of the American empire. The US regime is also coordinating violent repression on the domestic front by escalating the war on the foreign front.
The researcher concluded: Do we submit to the repression imposed by the genocidal Western order, or to the majority of the global South, led by the Palestinians, who fight the Zionist death machine and continue to raise the costs and end the impunity of the agents of genocidal war?
Dutaki, a scholar of international law, joined Yale Law School in 2023 as deputy director of a project. Known for her advocacy for Palestine in articles and public speeches, she worked on a project that aimed to strive for economic, racial, and gender equality.
Last week, he was abruptly banned from Yale’s campus and placed on administrative leave. He is also barred from identifying himself as a member of the university.
Yale officials cited allegations of his ties to entities sanctioned by the US government as the reason for the move. The reference is likely to be to Samadoun, a pro-Palestinian group that was placed on a US sanctions list last year after the US Treasury Department designated it a shell charity that raises money for Palestine.