Posted on 02/06/2025 9:19:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A federal judge rejected Cooper Union's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Jewish students that alleged the New York college violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to protect them from anti-Semitic attacks.
Judge John Cronan also admonished Cooper Union for arguing that the Jewish students should have hidden when anti-Semitic agitators cornered them in the school library...
In October 2023, anti-Israel protesters... banged on the locked doors and the large floor-to-ceiling windows, demanding to be let in.
In response, 10 Jewish students filed suit against Cooper Union in April 2024, alleging that the college failed to protect them and allowed a hostile environment to form in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
"During the roughly twenty-minute ordeal, Cooper Union's administrators did nothing to disperse the protestors and instead directed law enforcement to stand down, even as the college's president had just escaped the building through a back exit," Cronan wrote. "None of the protestors subsequently faced any discipline."
The president at the time, Laura Sparks, resigned in August 2024...
The students' complaint listed additional anti-Semitic incidents on campus, including graffiti using lettering that resembles the font on the cover of Mein Kampf and the removal of photos of Israeli hostages...
The Department of Education is also investigating Cooper Union over the incident. In the weeks before President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Biden administration reached last-minute toothless settlements with several universities over anti-Semitism allegations.
But Trump has taken a far more aggressive posture. His administration's Department of Education this week opened probes into anti-Semitism at five universities and launched a task force intended to "root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses."
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
G'night all. Quite a flurry of activity on FR the past few days!
I implore anyone interested in this to please read a couple articles on this.
It occurred in middle of lower Manhattan. There is no reason to believe the protesters were students.
The Cooper Union library is a 6 story building that takes up half of a city block.
There were around 20-30 protesters yelling and banging on the 6 large front windows for 15-20 minutes.
10 jewish students who were inside the library at the time decided to sue their university.
Does this seem reasonable to you?
Should the protesters have been arrested for disturbing the peace? Absolutely. But unfortunately, we live in a world where people with 80 IQs are allowed to come into our country, shit on our sidewalks and assault people on subways so....I don’t think the cops are going to arrest people for banging on windows regardless of the religion of the people they are yelling at.
NYC needs to allow concealed carry. The dimwits banging on the library doors deserve to be put down one way or the other. Suing the university is next best.
Whatever.
Go find the next article with “Israel” in it and continue your bashing.
So dull.
All the more reason why Cooper Union should have protected all of its students and library.
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