Ameer Loggins

Overview

Ameer Loggins [Ameer Hasan Loggins] reportedly targeted Jewish students multiple times as a lecturer at Stanford University (Stanford) in October 2023. Loggins has also spread anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel online as early as 2011. 

The 2023 incident occurred following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left about 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”

According to student complaints, in October 2023, Loggins defended the Hamas terror attacks. Stanford suspended Loggins from teaching and the university’s president and provost said the “university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.” 

As of October 2023, Loggins had been working towards “earning his doctorate in African Diaspora Studies” at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).  

Also as of October 2023, Loggins’s LinkedIn profile said he was located in Berkeley, California.

Targeting Jewish Stanford Students in the Classroom

In October 2023, days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, murdering, raping, torturing and kidnapping Israeli men, women and children, Loggins gave an undergraduate class at Stanford where he reportedly “asked Jewish students to raise their hands” and stand in a corner. He then separated them from their belongings and claimed: “This is what Israel does to the Palestinians.” 

Loggins reportedly separated students into different groups “based on their identities and backgrounds and called them ‘colonizers’ and ‘colonized.’” When a student said he was from Israel, Loggins reportedly said: “Oh, definitely a colonizer.”

In the same class, Loggins also asked students how many people died in the Holocaust. When one student replied “six million,” Loggins answered: “Yes. Only six million.”

Students reported that Loggins minimized the Holocaust, telling them that “more people died as a result of colonialism than in the Holocaust and that colonization was what happened to Palestinians.” Loggins also reportedly said: “Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer.”
 
Loggins reportedly blamed the outbreak of Israel’s October 2023 war with Hamas “on Zionists” and said Hamas’s terrorist acts were “part of a resistance.”

Loggins also reportedly claimed Hamas was a “legitimate representation of the Palestinian people” and “not a terrorist group,” but “freedom fighter,” and described Hamas actions as “legitimate.”

On October 11, 2023, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez wrote that Loggins, who was not named, was reported for “identity-based targeting of students.” He was also “reported to have addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities.” Loggins was also suspended from teaching at Stanford and the statement said the “university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.”