A former professor at Chicago’s Columbia College has filed a lawsuit against the after the school fired her for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks in a class. Suriya “Sue” Smiley taught part-time at Columbia in the Radio department after spending 14 years as a producer for WLS-AM. Smiley is of Palestinian descent and was alleged to have told a student in her class, “I should have known you were Jewish by the size of your nose.”

Smiley’s suit against Columbia alleges that her dismissal based on that unsubstantiated remark constitutes discrimination. The suit was filed on behalf of Smiley by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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