After years of protests calling on the school to fire him, Oberlin College has finally placed Professor Mohammad Jafer Mahallati on “indefinite administrative leave.”
The so-called “Professor of Peace” has a history of supporting Hamas and calling for the destruction of Israel.
Mahalatti’s ouster comes in the middle of a federal investigation of antisemitism at Oberlin based on charges brought by 1986 alumna Melissa Landa, whose story we covered here. Landa is president of the Oberlin Chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, a non-profit group that fights antisemitism at the school. She filed her complaint against Oberlin with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) back in 2019. On September 29, the OCR announced it is looking into her charges under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI).
