This is a disturbing new development. I've been teaching at NYU for more than 30 years. I was at Princeton for eight years before. I've been around the block and have never seen anything remotely like this crackdown over the last year. It’s completely unprecedented and it’s solely about Palestine.
The American Association of University Professors described the PNG orders as tantamount to suspension and part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses.
Posmentier, an associate professor of literature, described the move against her as part of the Palestine exception on NYU and other US campuses to suppress criticism of Israel despite purporting to support free speech.
NYU has barred two tenured faculty members from entering some buildings after they joined protests demanding transparency regarding university investments tied to Israel.
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