Almost a dozen students have been suspended for a year from New York University (NYU) for demanding divestment from Israel as President Donald Trump's no-nonsense approach to higher education takes hold.
"I think the key thing, and it seems to be going on at NYU, is not that schools come down hard on particular students, is that they enforce the rules evenly," Cornell University professor William Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "The problem with the anti-Israel protesters on campuses is they don't want to obey the existing rules. They don't want to have to live by the rules that everybody else lives by. Whether it's disrupting the library, whether it's blocking the campus flow of pedestrians.
"And as soon as you enforce the rules that everybody else needs to live by, they start playing victim," he said.
In a statement following the university's ruling to suspend the student protesters, NYU's Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) argued that the group was participating in anti-war protests and acted nonviolently. On Dec. 11 and 12, a group of NYU students and faculty dropped flyers and hung pro-Palestinian banners throughout the Bobst Library, and others conducted a sit-in on the floor of the library.
"In a draconian case of collective punishment, NYU has issued blanket year-long suspensions to students who participated in nonviolent protest on campus on December 11, 2024," the group posted to its Instagram account. "As of today, at least eleven students have been suspended until January 2026." "The sit-in was to demand a meeting with administration officials regarding disclosure of and divestment from institutional investments in Israel," the group said. "All students identified as participating in these actions were charged with similar violations of NYU’s code of student conduct."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said that the protests on Dec. 11 and 12 were "not peaceful." "Rather, it was the intentional disruption of a library, over the course of two days, at a critical academic moment — on the eve of finals. This disruption was accompanied by threats of violence directed at senior members of the university community," he said.
"The disciplinary hearings against NYU student participants that followed, and the resulting sanctions were a consequence of the students' disruptive conduct (not their speech): knowingly violating University and Library rules despite repeated warnings and attempts at de-escalation over several hours," he said. "It is improper for a small group of people — some not even in our community — to try to prevent or interrupt other students from entering the library or using it to study for finals. Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously."
Jacobson said that he believes that the Trump administration will require universities to "insist that the rules be adhered to." "And those rules mean you cannot create hostile environments for certain religious groups or certain ethnic groups. And what we've seen on many campuses is that, particularly pro-Israel students, Jewish students are being targeted by these groups. They create so-called Zionist-free zones on campus. Well, it's not your right to do that," he said.
More than 100 U.S. colleges and school districts remain under investigation over alleged antisemitism or Islamophobia following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Some settled with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks leading up to Trump's second term. The civil rights violations fall under Title VI, which bars discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color and national origin at colleges and universities that receive federal funding.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elite-university-attended-by-trump-s-son-cracks-down-on-left-wing-student-agitators/ar-AA1y6M4x?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=524a79f5a29b4a44971d26672f29c874&ei=40
Funny how these school quickly settled their Title VI violations to avoid dealing with the Trump Administration. Would have been much better had they not violated so many people's civil rights in the first place.
"I think the key thing, and it seems to be going on at NYU, is not that schools come down hard on particular students, is that they enforce the rules evenly," Cornell University professor William Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "The problem with the anti-Israel protesters on campuses is they don't want to obey the existing rules. They don't want to have to live by the rules that everybody else lives by. Whether it's disrupting the library, whether it's blocking the campus flow of pedestrians.
"And as soon as you enforce the rules that everybody else needs to live by, they start playing victim," he said.
In a statement following the university's ruling to suspend the student protesters, NYU's Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) argued that the group was participating in anti-war protests and acted nonviolently. On Dec. 11 and 12, a group of NYU students and faculty dropped flyers and hung pro-Palestinian banners throughout the Bobst Library, and others conducted a sit-in on the floor of the library.
"In a draconian case of collective punishment, NYU has issued blanket year-long suspensions to students who participated in nonviolent protest on campus on December 11, 2024," the group posted to its Instagram account. "As of today, at least eleven students have been suspended until January 2026." "The sit-in was to demand a meeting with administration officials regarding disclosure of and divestment from institutional investments in Israel," the group said. "All students identified as participating in these actions were charged with similar violations of NYU’s code of student conduct."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said that the protests on Dec. 11 and 12 were "not peaceful." "Rather, it was the intentional disruption of a library, over the course of two days, at a critical academic moment — on the eve of finals. This disruption was accompanied by threats of violence directed at senior members of the university community," he said.
"The disciplinary hearings against NYU student participants that followed, and the resulting sanctions were a consequence of the students' disruptive conduct (not their speech): knowingly violating University and Library rules despite repeated warnings and attempts at de-escalation over several hours," he said. "It is improper for a small group of people — some not even in our community — to try to prevent or interrupt other students from entering the library or using it to study for finals. Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously."
Jacobson said that he believes that the Trump administration will require universities to "insist that the rules be adhered to." "And those rules mean you cannot create hostile environments for certain religious groups or certain ethnic groups. And what we've seen on many campuses is that, particularly pro-Israel students, Jewish students are being targeted by these groups. They create so-called Zionist-free zones on campus. Well, it's not your right to do that," he said.
More than 100 U.S. colleges and school districts remain under investigation over alleged antisemitism or Islamophobia following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Some settled with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks leading up to Trump's second term. The civil rights violations fall under Title VI, which bars discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color and national origin at colleges and universities that receive federal funding.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elite-university-attended-by-trump-s-son-cracks-down-on-left-wing-student-agitators/ar-AA1y6M4x?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=524a79f5a29b4a44971d26672f29c874&ei=40
Funny how these school quickly settled their Title VI violations to avoid dealing with the Trump Administration. Would have been much better had they not violated so many people's civil rights in the first place.
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