Tag: Betar

55. NEW YORK, October 14, 2024 – The right-wing Zionist youth group “Betar” has arrived on New York University’s campus, vandalizing NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) and threatening pro-Palestinian student activists with violence. Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) calls on the NYU administration to treat these attacks the way it treats other forms of potential hate crimes. Instead, the vague and narrowly distributed statement issued by the University reveals its differential treatment of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab attacks compared to other types of reported bias incidents on and off campus.

… Even before its response to these latest attacks and threats, NYU was widely criticized for the climate it has created for pro-Palestinian activists on campus. Just last week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, singled out NYU and Northwestern University for their “creation of a hostile campus environment for Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish and other students, staff, and faculty opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.” The discriminatory actions of the University administration are diminishing NYU’s reputation as an equitable institution of higher learning and its claims to be a global network university.