For the last 15 months, students at NYU and at universities across the country have consistently engaged in protest against Israel’s documented genocide in Gaza.
Punishments in this case are dramatically more severe than those issued over the past 15 months. Admin. indicated this harsher punishment is related to purported “threatening messages” found in the library, despite any evidence connecting the protesting students to the graffiti
Associating the protests w/ anonymous graffiti, NYU accuses all protesting students of engaging in “coordinated & collective disruptive events,” incl. designing+printing+disseminating flyers+disguising their identities w/ masks (actions not in violations of the code of conduct).
The extreme sanctions placed on all of the students charged w/ participating in the protest can only be explained as a complete collapse in any kind of due process and instead the arbitrary meting out of collective punishment – regardless of the actions of any individual student.
This assertion of guilt by association is a dangerous smear tactic on the part of the administration. It attempts to delegitimize the most powerful student movement of recent decades.
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