Around 100 students gathered outside Gould Plaza before marching down Lafayette Street on Monday demanding NYU divest from companies with ties to Israel, shut down its study abroad site in Tel Aviv and pardon disciplinary action against students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The march came right after a rally in Washington.
NYU trustee and insurance billionaire William Berkley called for federal law enforcement to take action against pro-Palestinian student protesters on a Zoom call with the centrist group No Labels, the Intercept reported on Saturday. Berkley alleged that similarities between the tents used in encampments at different universities suggested an outside group had coordinated the demonstrations. .
About 100 graduate student workers and faculty are threatening to withhold final grades until NYU agrees to remove New York City Police Department officers from campus, pardon pro-Palestinian “students, faculty, and graduate workers,” facing disciplinary action and “substantively negotiate,” with student protesters over their demands. Some teaching assistants, course assistants and associate instructors included in.
More than 5,000 NYU alumni sent letters to administrators demanding that the university remove police from campus and meet the demands of the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition including divestment from companies with ties to Israel and pardoning disciplinary action against students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. The letter, written by the.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, N.Y. (PIX11) — After police shut down tent encampments at two more New York City colleges on Friday morning, protests against the actions took place, involving far more people than had been involved in the encampments. Organizers and participants said that it was an indication that the crackdown only serves to enhance and enlarge their […]