Arizona State University (ASU) has announced that a scholar who was involved in a verbal assault of a woman wearing a hijab was terminated and barred from returning to campus to teach, Al Jazeera says.

“He is no longer permitted to be on campus and will never teach here again,” ASU President Michael Crow said in a statement to CNN about Jonathan Yudelman, who was placed on leave after the May 5 incident.

Yudelman, a postdoctoral researcher at the university, was recognised and accused of intimidating two people near a pro-Israel rally in a widely circulated social media video.

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