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An Iranian scholar at Yale said on Tuesday that she has been terminated by the institution after being barred from campus two weeks ago. The move was prompted by allegations on a lesser-known, largely AI-powered news site called Jewish Onliner, which said that Helyeh Doutaghi had ties to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, better known as Samidoun. The group was sanctioned in the US and declared a terrorist group in Canada in October 2024. Helyeh Doutaghi's lawyer told Middle East Eye at the time that Yale appeared to be retaliating because of Doutaghi's pro-Palestinian speech. On Tuesday, in a statement posted to X, Doutaghi said she "will not legitimise a process driven by Zionist actors", referring to the pro-Israeli lawyer the university hired to question her. Yale, she added, has not "presented a single shred of evidence demonstrating any unlawful connection or act on my part. I have been terminated based on unproven allegations". "The leg...

Back in the 80s it was generally believed that with a smaller home and garden there was still so much to do.

Once in elementary school I was on the phone with my friend and he asked me if I wanted to hear something and I said yes. He proceeded to bang on what sounded like a gong. I then asked him if he wanted to hear something. When he said yes I made a farting sound with my mouth.  

Dr. Leila Abbasi has been terminated from her position at a New York hospital after sharing posts in support of Hamas. The decision follows growing concerns over professionals expressing controversial political views in sensitive workplaces. Leila Abbasi, a 46-year-old doctor, expressed in a post her support for Hamas and Hezbollah resistance groups, describing the Israeli army as a plague responsible for killing infants in Gaza.  

If you clean a vacuum cleaner, aren't you technically the vacuum cleaner?