Yale Law School has placed an employee on “immediate administrative leave” over alleged ties to Samidoun, the North American financial arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Israel.
Helyeh Doutaghi, an associate research scholar and deputy director of the law and political economy project at Yale since 2023, is listed on Samidoun’s website as part of its international network.
“We take these allegations extremely seriously and immediately opened an investigation into the matter to ascertain the facts,” a university spokesperson said in a statement.
Doutaghi’s contract is set to expire next month, and she will remain on administrative leave until the review is completed.