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NYU FSJP supports Palestinian liberation, the protection of Pro-Palestine academic speech on campus, and the academic boycott of Israel. IG: NYU_FSJP 🇵🇸
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NYU can’t hide behind the “security” script forever. Either it protects academic freedom, or it doesn’t. If that’s unclear, you might be reading last decade’s teleprompter.
#AcademicFreedom #NYU #Transparency
Read the facts now: nyu-aaup.org/wp-content/u...
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🚨Call to Action:
Don’t just read the headlines—read the full AAUP-NYU's report and see for yourself how flimsy the “national security” veil is.
Knowledge is power; demand transparency.
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Reality Check:
The term “safety” is tossed around like a get-out-of-accountability card. But “safety” stops feeling safe when it’s used to justify discriminatory profiling and gag orders on speech. Check the AAUP report’s page 12 for the receipts.
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What’s at Stake:
Academic freedom is in free fall. When challenging leadership can get you labeled a “terrorist sympathizer,” it’s a bad day for higher ed everywhere.
If you’re okay with that, maybe skip ahead—but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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Key Findings:
•Admins singled out certain student groups under the guise of “terrorist alignment.”
•Legal counsel threatened to revoke visas—effectively muzzling dissent.
•Faculty who questioned these moves were treated like conspirators, not concerned educators.
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Think PR spin meets “national security” scare tactics—NYU’s formula for shutting down inconvenient questions. The AAUP-NYU report spells out how “safety” doubles as a muzzle. Sound familiar?
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Context 101:
NYT piece suggests a messy tie between President Mills & Trump-era immigration stances. But the AAUP-NYU report clarifies: this isn’t mere rumor-there’s a calculated shift happening at NYU.
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NYU faculty members—including my own doctoral advisor, who guided me toward my future work—have been declared persona non grata for exercising their academic freedom and moral conscience.
NYU students exercising their constitutional right to protest have faced harsh punishment on this very campus.
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"In addition to being hypocritical & grotesque, it appears to be evidence of actual discrimination at the admin. level at NYU...It shows that there is a different standard applied in the way that students are being punished.” - @zachsamalin.bsky.social, English associate professor (NYU)
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"NYU’s administration has very clearly bypassed and thus undermined norms of academic freedom, faculty governance, and due process." - Rebecca E. Karl, immediate past president of @aaup.bsky.social- NYU
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Please express your concerns directly to NYU administration and demand that these suspensions be immediately revoked, allowing all students to return to their studies by the start of the spring semester.
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We ask that you write to President Linda Mills ([email protected]),
Provost Gigi Dopico, ([email protected]), Senior Vice President for University Life Jason Piña ([email protected]), & Office of Student Conduct Director Mathew Shepard ([email protected]).
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Following on the heels of widespread public condemnation of NYU’s arrests & declaration of a number of its own faculty as Persona Non Grata (PNG), the university’s admin. is once again setting a shameful precedent w/ this mass suspension of students protesting an ongoing genocide.
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It reflects the ongoing “Palestine exception” to free speech on campus, also highlighted in yesterday’s press release from the NYCLU condemning NYU’s transformation of its non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy to stifle speech on Palestine.
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NYU’s unprecedented year-long suspension of nonviolent protesters in good standing is a pernicious weaponization of policy, tarnishing its global reputation and undermining free speech.
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Ironically, NYU’s University Student Conduct Policy states that “a critically engaged, activist student body contributes to NYU’s academic mission,” and emphasizes that the policy is not intended to hinder “organized, nonviolent, peaceful protest. www.nyu.edu/about/polici...
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By suspending a large group of activists, the administration clearly aims to undermine this movement and intimidate those who remain at NYU.
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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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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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As of December 11, the day of the protest, the death toll in Gaza had reached 45,000 people, more than half women and children.
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As a resolution passed by the American Historical Association on Sunday indicates, scholarly life in Gaza has been destroyed, as Israel’s bombardments of the enclave have reduced all universities and nearly all schools, libraries and archives to rubble. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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The minor disruptions of distributing flyers and chanting for fifteen minutes were intended to highlight the much more significant disruption of teaching, learning and scholarship that has taken place in Gaza
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Messages sent by the Office of Student Conduct to suspended students indicate that they are being punished for holding a protest in the library at the end of the semester, claiming that this produced “a significant disruptive impact…during a particularly critical time.”
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All students identified as participating in these actions were charged with similar violations of NYU’s code of student conduct, first and foremost “engaging in activity that substantially disrupts or interferes with University or community activities, programs or operations.”
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The sit-in was to demand a meeting with administration officials regarding disclosure of and divestment from institutional investments in Israel.
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As of today, at least 11 students have been suspended until Jan.' 26. Those suspended thus far include students who participated in a sit-in in front of the administration offices on the 12th floor of Bobst Library & those who simply sat in the lobby of the library in solidarity.
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In a draconian case of collective punishment, New York University has issued blanket year-long suspensions to students who participated in nonviolent protest on campus on December 11, 2024.
nyunews.com/news/2024/12...
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According to @nyclu.bsky.social, universities "...cracking down on protected political expression and bringing more law enforcement onto campuses — that would limit student speech, chill academic freedom, and possibly escalate violence or campus tensions."
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