
In a deposition, Ali was asked about some of the conclusions his students had come to about the Holocaust as expressed in papers they wrote. The school district removed the suit to federal court. He sued the district and administrators in state court, alleging violations of New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination as well as a federal law that bars race considerations in contracting. In September 2016, after a TV news reporter questioned school administrators about the 9/11 materials, the school district dismissed Ali.

had a much easier and more enjoyable life in the camps.”įor a lesson on 9/11, Ali posted links on a school website for his students to access articles from Egypt and Saudi Arabia that suggest the United States was involved in the attacks and that it planned a similar attack on ISIS in 2015 using Al-Queda terrorists. is looked at as a bad guy but in reality brought Germany out of its great depression.” Another of Ali’s students wrote that “what they claim happened in the concentration camps did not really happen” and that “Jews. One student wrote in a paper submitted in Ali’s class that “Adolf Hitler. “That tragic event in human history along with the 9/11 terrorist attacks lie at the center of this matter.”Īli began work as a history teacher at Woodbridge High in September 2015, and by the following May reports were trickling up to the school administration that the teacher was offering unorthodox views about the Holocaust and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is a historic fact,” the 3rd Circuit court said in its April 22 decision in Ali v.

“There are no nuances to be discerned regarding the Holocaust.
