With the decision by the Trump administration to pull $400 million in funding from Columbia University, the writing is on the wall that support for designated terror groups will not be tolerated. Yale University may have gotten that message as it recently suspended Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of a left-wing project after a news article connected her to Samidoun.
As an activist who had championed pro-Palestinian causes in both published papers and public appearances, Dr. Doutaghi seemed to fit into the left-leaning mission of the Law and Political Economy Project, which promoted itself as working for “economic, racial and gender equality.”
Last week, though, she was abruptly barred from Yale’s campus in New Haven, Conn., and placed on administrative leave. She was told not to advertise her affiliation with the university, where she had also…
