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A group of Jewish students are suing New York University – NYU – for what they charge is the school’s failure to deal with rising anti-Semitism on campus since the barbaric Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7. At the same time, the Australian company Western Sydney Jump is refusing to provide services to a Jewish school in Sydney because of the ongoing war in Gaza.
The students are alleging that NYU has created a hostile anti-Semitic educational environment by failing to enforce its own policies against discrimination. They are also alleging that they have been subjected to verbal and physical harassment, threats, and intimidation by other students and faculty members. These allegations are serious and should be investigated thoroughly.
The students’ allegations are extremely serious and disturbing. It is unacceptable that they have been subjected to this kind of harassment and intimidation. The university must take immediate action to investigate these allegations and take steps to ensure the safety and well-being of all of its students.
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The university’s failure to enforce its own policies against discrimination is also a major concern. The fact that the students have been having their complaints ignored or downplayed is simply not acceptable. The university has a responsibility to protect its students from discrimination, and it is clear that it is not doing so in this case.
The suit comes as Hamas supporters have been allowed to run rampant over the campuses of America’s most prestigious universities since the October 7 attack. Many influential Jewish donors like Bill Ackman have even been closing their checkbooks and ending financial support to Ivy League schools like Harvard.
Marc E. Kasowitz, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said, “NYU’s deliberate indifference toward the plight of its Jewish students under siege by egregious antisemitism has been outrageous. We are asking the Court to compel NYU to comply with the Civil Rights Act, its own purported policies, and elementary human decency, which to date the University has failed and refused to do on its own.”
As for what is happening in Australia, the owner of Western Sydney Jump, a company that rents out blow up “jump castles” for children, told the Jewish Masada College school in Sydney it will not do business with the school saying, “There is no way I am taking a Zionist booking. I don’t want your blood money. Free Palestine.”
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns condemned the company telling The Daily Telegraph, “This is outrageous. It’s not in keeping with any part of our multicultural community. I condemn it completely.”
