NYU terminated a postdoctoral instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences earlier this month, after he was seen taking down posters of hostages taken by Hamas, a Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine statement said and a copy of a termination letter obtained by WSN confirmed. The instructor, Darren King, appears to have.
Around 300 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Washington Square Park before marching to 42nd Street on Thursday afternoon for a demonstration organized by New York City’s chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement activist group. Speakers from NYU, Columbia University and schools in The State University of New York system called on their respective institutions to divest.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a First Amendment watchdog organization, criticized NYU’s administration for the suspension of Gallatin professor Amin Husain, citing a university policy that protects faculty from discipline when they “speak or write as citizens.” In a Feb. 2 letter to NYU president Linda Mills, the group demanded that the university.