Rafael Jacobs News Today

NYU’s graduate student union accused the university of canceling “several” pro-Palestinian events in a statement on Monday, also claiming there has been a “deeply concerning increase in policing, surveillance and punitive actions” against pro-Palestinian students and workers on campus over the last few weeks. NYU denied canceling an event included in the letter, and said...

The U.S. Senate named NYU twice in an Oct. 18 resolution condemning “antisemitic student activities” across college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. The resolution accused several student activities on U.S. college campuses, including a message in support of Palestinian resistance from the former president of NYU Law’s Student Bar Association, of being antisemitic. The resolution...

More than 200 students and faculty gathered by the Garibaldi statue in Washington Square Park yesterday for a pro-Israeli demonstration, calling on NYU to directly address incidents of antisemitism on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The protest, organized by on-campus Jewish groups including the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, comes just...

NYU has increased the number of Campus Safety officers at its Washington Square and Brooklyn campuses and had added 4,000 weekly patrol hours as of yesterday, according to an Oct. 25 email to students from university president Linda Mills.  In the email, which comes amid weekslong tensions over the Israel-Hamas war on campus, Mills wrote...

Members of NYU’s Students for Justice in Palestine and over 30 other on-campus student groups criticized university president Linda Mills’ recent statement on the Israel-Hamas conflict in a letter last Monday, accusing the university of “demonstrating a profound disregard” for its Palestinian community. Mills’ Oct. 8 statement addressed last week’s “deadly terrorist attack on Israel”...

The president of the Student Bar Association at NYU Law is facing removal after they wrote in a newsletter that “Israel bears full responsibility” for the loss of life in the recent violence between the Israeli military and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.  The SBA board voted to initiate the removal of president Ryna Workman...