Stanford suspends lecturer accused of making his Jewish students stand in a corner and calling Israelis 'colonizers'

• Stanford has suspended a lecturer pending investigation. 
• The lecturer is alleged to have singled out Jewish students based on their "backgrounds and identities."
• The war between Israel and Hamas has led to a spike in tensions on US college campuses.

Stanford University has suspended a lecturer following reports that he directed Jewish students in his class to stand in the corner and described Israelis as 'colonizers.'

Nourya Cohen and Andrei Mandelshtam, Israeli student leaders on the campus, told the San Francisco Chronicle that they had spoken to 18 of the lecturer's students this week.