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In Shot at Gaza Protesters, NYU Makes “Zionist” a Protected Class

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/10/25: A student from New York University holds a pro-Palestinian sign protesting the Israel-Hamas war during a rally as students call for a ceasefire in Gazay. Planned walkouts by students on college campuses across the country were organized calling for an end to the retaliation bombing of Gaza after the Palestinian militant group launched a deadly attack in southern Israel on October 7. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A New York University student holds a Palestine solidarity sign at a protest for a ceasefire in Gaza in New York City on Oct. 25, 2023.
Photo: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

As students and faculty in the U.S. return to campuses for the fall semester, there are innumerable reasons to continue demonstrating against institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The need for those protests is as urgent as it’s ever been.

University and college administrations, however, are not only signaling plans to treat pro-Palestinian speech with intellectual dishonesty, they’re making clear they plan to use their specious logic to inflict evermore repressive intolerance.

New York University led by troubling example when the school shared an updated code of student conduct last week. Ostensibly aimed at curtailing…

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