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NYU Student Filmed Ripping Down Posters of Israeli Hostages Suspended
After three top university presidents failed to dispel questions about on-campus anti-Semitism this week, are other universities taking note?
A New York University student filmed in October tearing down Israeli hostage posters has been suspended by NYU.
“Student suspended after tearing down Israeli hostage posters,” reported Bruna Horvath for NYU’s independent student newspaper, Washington Square News, on Thursday.
“According to a Nov. 13 email from the Office of Student Conduct obtained by WSN, NYU said the student, Hafiza Khalique, violated the University Student Conduct Policy by vandalizing ‘university property or the property of others’ as well as its Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policies,’” wrote Horvath. “The OSC said the university is ‘taking a strong stance’ with violations of its conduct policies in the email, in particular with cases ‘involving calls for violence and offensive or intimidating conduct.’”
According to the email obtained by WSN: “The fact remains that the posters related to the recent attacks by Hamas which targeted Jewish and Israeli people, and the posters displayed victims of those attacks. Accordingly, OSC has determined that the act of tearing down the posters is inherently based on the actual or perceived…