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| Multiple Hamas supporting NYU professors are being arrested after physically taking over and shutting down the library during finals | |
| 2024-12-13 | |
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Anti-Israel protesters rally outside NYU library on last day of class [IsraelTimes] Demonstrators demand the university shut down its Tel Aviv campus, call for an intifada, as students study for finals Several dozen anti-Israel protesters rallied outside New York University’s main library on Thursday, snarling students’ study plans on the last day of class for the fall semester. The protesters chanted "intifada revolution" and "Tel Aviv is stolen land" while beating a wooden spoon on a metal bowl. Many were covering their faces with keffiyehs. "While you’re learning, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... ’s burning," they chanted. One protester held a sign that said, "Shut down NYU Tel Aviv." "We gain strength from our deaders," a speaker told the crowd. The campus tightened security at the library, restricting access to a single door. Around a dozen campus security officers manned a barricade at the building entrance and checked student IDs for those entering. A line of students stretched down the block huddled against the winter cold. The protest took place on the sidewalk, on public property. An NYU spokesperson said the protesters had tried to block all entryways into the building, ignoring directions from campus safety officers. Entry to the library was temporarily halted, but was later restored, the spokesperson said. The university said police made eight arrests. Two protesters were visible in a police van next to the protest. Other demonstrators cursed at officers and called them "pigs" as a police drone buzzed overhead. NYU spokesperson John Beckman said the university "rejects any claims that this is peaceful protest." "The people involved were intentionally targeting members of our community," Beckman said, adding that their "harassing behavior" disrupted studies at a critical time in the semester as final exams began and ignored the rights of students. The protesters demanded that the university disclose and divest holdings in "companies aiding the Israeli occupation of Paleostine." They targeted the university’s president, Linda Mills, chanting, "Linda Mills, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide." A masked demonstrator handed out fliers that demanded the university "DIVEST from the settler state of ’Israel'" and close its campus in Tel Aviv. Students outside the library said protesters had staged a demonstration inside the building on Wednesday night, disrupting studies ahead of final exams. NYU’s branch of Students for Justice in Paleostine said on Instagram it had staged a "sit in" at the library to demand divestment from "war profiteering." NYU saw raucous anti-Israel protests last year, but the campus has been relatively quiet in the fall semester.
Thursday was the last day of finals at New York University, and the evening promised students following the undefeated NYU basketball team — ranked seventh in the country — an intriguing matchup with Yeshiva University, which had already defeated one opponent ranked in Division III’s Top 25 this season. But after a pro-Palestinian student protest resulted in several arrests just a few blocks away from the campus athletic center, the game was closed to the general public. Instead, only people added to a guest list by each team were allowed to attend. MacsLive, which broadcasts Yeshiva University men’s basketball games, announced the decision but did not say who was behind it or state their rationale. The dozen or so students, faculty and other New Yorkers who handcuffed themselves together in a blockade of the entrance to Bobst Library — the school’s 12-story main library — were protesting to demand NYU disclose its financial holdings in “the industries that massacre people globally” and divest from companies “aiding the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” according to a statement from the group. NYPD arrested eight protesters, NYU wrote in a statement. Two of the arrests were of NYU faculty members, according to the Washington Square News, NYU’s student newspaper. It identified one of them as Andrew Ross, a professor in the school’s College of Arts and Sciences. According to NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, three faculty members at the protest were subsequently barred from campus by Georgina Dopico, the school’s provost. The group said all three faculty were Jewish. (Dopico did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) The group’s statement did not mention Yeshiva University or the basketball game. But there were reasons to suspect the protest might have spilled over into the John A. Paulson Center, the arena just a few minutes’ walk away from the library. Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish university in Washington Heights, is one of the most prominent Zionist institutions in New York. The school has a campus in Jerusalem, and its president, Rabbi Ari Berman, has posed for photos with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war began. Nicknamed the Macs, the basketball team, whose perennial on-court success has made it a point of pride at the institution, is a hallmark of the school’s connection to Israel. The team fields Israeli players, it plays the Israeli national anthem before home games and some of its players have gone on to play in Israel after graduating. Its head coach, Elliot Steinmetz, has offered trenchant pro-Israel commentary on social media throughout the war. Steinmetz said in a text message Thursday that limiting attendance was a “security decision.” “It’s sad to see such uneducated people in an institution of higher education,” Steinmetz added. “Especially knowing there are faculty members involved that [are] unfortunately shaping future generations based on hate fueled propaganda. But that’s the world we live in right now. We lack educators and leaders in important places.” NYU Athletics and the John A. Paulson Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Related: NYU: 2024-12-02 The Hamas-university nexus, doing Iran’s work for the vicious joy of it: 11/24-11/30 NYU: 2024-11-30 Explaination of De-Banking - privates sanctioning NYU: 2024-11-10 Israel-hate at the universities 10/27-11/9 Related: Students for Justice in Paleostine: 2024-11-11 John Podhoretz: Pogrom 2024 Students for Justice in Paleostine: 2024-10-27 Anti-Israel US campus groups radicalize, with no one to stop them, experts warn Students for Justice in Paleostine: 2024-10-16 Both the U.S. and Canada today classified Samidoun as a terrorist organization. Samidoun is a PFLP front, involved in current anti-Zionist campus protests | |
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