New York University’s law school may be legally obligated to take action, Aaron Sibarium reports, against students who signed a statement, drafted by the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, “defending terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.” Since the statement was publicized, a number of Jewish students have complained of anti-Semitic harassment on campus.
“The Zionist grip on the media is omnipresent,” the statement read. “Palestinians are not obligated to engage in racialized ‘nonviolence’ theory and wait around for a United Nations action that will never come as their homes are taken from them.”
Several students who signed and organized the statement are attending the law school on scholarship as part of the Root-Tilden-Kern Program, widely considered the most prestigious public-interest law scholarship in the country. . . . Current scholars include Zaynab Said, who signed on behalf of NYU’s Black Allied Law Students Association; Maya Goldman, who signed on behalf of the Disability Allied Law Students Association; Yosmin Badie, who sits on the board of NYU’s Students for Justice in Palestine; and Allison Hrabar, who signed with the valediction, “from the river to the sea”—a call for the elimination of Israel.
NYU may have no choice but to punish these students because the university in 2020 agreed to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward anti-Semitism as part of a settlement with the Department of Education’s civil-rights office, which was investigating a string of anti-Semitic incidents at the elite school. The agreement obligates NYU to “take all necessary actions, including pursuant to its student discipline process,” to address anti-Semitism on campus. Should the Biden administration decide to enforce the terms of that agreement, inaction could jeopardize NYU’s federal funding under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Read more on Washington Free Beacon: https://freebeacon.com/campus/under-federal-scrutiny-nyu-law-school-faces-uproar-over-anti-semitism/