A Stanford University lecturer ordered his Jewish students to stand in a corner and told them “this is what Israel does to Palestine”, according to reports.

The teacher is understood to have said “only” six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and labelled students as “colonisers” or “colonised” depending on their heritage.

He also claimed the Hamas massacre of hundreds of Israelis was “legitimate” and described the terrorists as “freedom fighters”, according to The Forward, an American newspaper aimed at a Jewish audience.

Richard Saller, the Stanford president, and Provost Jenny Martinez said in a letter on Wednesday that non-faculty instructor had been suspended following reports he “addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities”.

Continue here: The Telegraph