Anti-Israel Bias
The university said it acted to meet the demands of anti-Israel protesters who have occupied its campus.
“We cannot accept statements like ‘Israel is an apartheid state’ or ‘Israel is an occupying state.’”
The anti-Israel wave across the U.S. has made life unbearable for Jewish students. “We will not allow our haters to do as they please,” Liat, a doctoral student, tells Israel Hayom.
“There might already be a decision to target certain Israeli leaders and senior IDF officers,” the president of the Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center told JNS.
“This is a case that has nothing to do with international law and everything to do with political interests,” legal expert tells JNS.
“I don’t think the university should look away over the summer. I don’t think they should be passive just because students have gone home,” says Ellie Campbell Green at New York University.
Police reportedly refused to remove trespassing demonstrators.
“Campus cops were just looking at us getting assaulted and didn’t want to intervene,” the man recounts.
Host Tadhg Enright said, “Yeah” when the guest said Israel was carrying out atrocities.
The school has not officially commented on the video of the incident, although it is unclear if this was on campus.
South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor is scheduled to open the event.
In a video released after the NYPD cleared protesters out of an academic building on campus, Minouche Shafik said students “have paid an especially high price.”
