The Council on American-Islamic Relations is suing the University of Minnesota for allegedly firing a Muslim employee based on her Pro-Palestine posts.
Mashal Sherzad was a diversity and equity and inclusion program manger for the School of Public Health. The group is claiming that she was terminated after she made a private Facebook post of her participating in a pro-Palestine protest in Spain late last year.
One picture included a flag that had a depiction of a swastika in the background. It was then sent to University leadership by an unnamed third-party.
Sherzad and her legal team say she is not responsible for the imagery and that this was an expression on her freedom of speech.
"I was assassinated for being anti-genocide of any people, of any background, at any point in time," Sherzad says.
She is seeking damages as well as her position back at the University.