New NYU student conduct policy prohibits nearly everything anti-Israel protesters have been doing ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, August 23, 2024

New NYU student conduct policy prohibits nearly everything anti-Israel protesters have been doing

New York University issued a new set of policies on student conduct, but the bulk of the policies are aimed squarely at the anti-Israel protesters and their noxious actions.

It is a welcome document.

While it does not say that discrimination based on political positions is prohibited, it still provides a great deal of protection to the Jewish Zionist community.

Here are some highlights. I add emphasis for the parts that clearly refer to the anti-Israel protesters:

Some examples of activities that would violate the NDAH [Nondiscrimination and anti-harassment] Policy include:
-Refusing to work with each other, or the application of any type of “litmus test” for participation in any academic activity, based on identity.
-Targeting someone for harassment or intimidation on the basis of their identity, their religious attire, their name, their language spoken, their accent, or their association with a religious organization or identity-related student club.
-Ostracism based on identity, such as refusing entry to an open event.
-Use or dissemination of tropes about protected groups.
-Calls for genocide of an entire people or group.
-Actions taken against someone based on their field of study, course enrollment, or study abroad participation could provide evidence of discriminatory motive for NDAH purposes–for example, vandalizing the office doors in a particular department tied to the study of a country or region.

The next section is the most explicit indication that this policy is aimed at anti-Israel bigots:

Using code words, like “Zionist,” does not eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the NDAH Policy. For many Jewish people, Zionism is a part of their Jewish identity. Speech and conduct that would violate the NDAH if targeting Jewish or Israeli people can also violate the NDAH if directed toward Zionists. For example, excluding Zionists from an open event, calling for the death of Zionists, applying a “no Zionist” litmus test for participation in any NYU activity, using or disseminating tropes, stereotypes, and conspiracies about Zionists (e.g., “Zionists control the media”), demanding a person who is or is perceived to be Jewish or Israeli to state a position on Israel or Zionism, minimizing or denying the Holocaust, or invoking Holocaust imagery or symbols to harass or discriminate.

But there is plenty more that applies to the haters:

The University has zero tolerance for any form of violence, threats, physical altercation or intimidation, and will promptly move to address such issues with action proportionate to the misconduct. This includes, but is not limited to: calling for violence on campus; calling for violence against NYU, or someone at NYU; or using language advocating for killing people or groups of people, and all relevant synonyms (e.g. eradicate, destroy, massacre, exterminate, etc.).

Some protest activities are never permitted:

- Amplified sound (e.g., bullhorns, speakers, musical instruments, etc.) indoors is never permitted.
- Amplified sound outside that is directly adjacent to classrooms, residence halls, or libraries and that disrupts academic or residential activities inside is never permitted.
- Protesting inside libraries is disruptive to study activities and is not allowed.
- Physically accosting someone who is participating in a protest, encircling, blocking someone’s path, attempting to grab or move their signs or equipment, and/or sabotaging their equipment are examples of violations.
- Encampments and overnight demonstrations are never permitted, indoors or outdoors, at any University location. Unauthorized overnight demonstrations on University property will be considered trespassing.
- Erecting unauthorized tents, structures, walls, barriers, or other objects on University property is never permitted.

The University will not tolerate interrupting a class session or otherwise interfering with a classroom or related activity. Conduct that may be permissible elsewhere, such as the holding or placement of banners, signs, etc., is not permissible in the classroom environment.

We do not permit “heckler’s veto”; it is a violation to interrupt, impede, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with any University event, including student group or club events.
You may not:

-Disrupt the program.
-Block entrances or exits or prevent others from entering or leaving the program.
-Obstruct the view of others.
-NYU community members may not serve as “proxies” or provide access to non-NYU affiliated individuals or organizations to use NYU property to organize or host an event on their behalf.

This document is at triple the size of the previous student conduct policy, and essentially all of the new parts are aimed squarely at the protesters from last semester.

It is fascinating that while universities largely coddled the protesters while they were occupying campuses nationwide, now before the new school year they are doing everything they can to ensure that they don't hijack the campuses again.

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