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Jewish students who were trapped in Cooper Union by protesters sue college over anti-Semitism
New York Post ^ | April 10, 2024, | Carl Campanile

Posted on 04/11/2024 2:53:50 PM PDT by george76

Ten Jewish students have filed a federal civil rights suit against The Cooper Union for failing to protect them and their classmates from antisemitism.

The complaint filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday cites an Oct. 25, 2023 incident in which the students said feared for their lives while locked in the campus library ...

“Cooper Union has failed to adequately protect not just our clients but other Jewish students on campus in the face of pro-Hamas hate,”

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“No student should be subjected to intimidation, fear or hatred when pursuing an education,”

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The suit claims Cooper Union — a private college in the East Village specializing in architecture, art, and engineering — failed to take measures to shield Jewish students from bigotry following Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, resulting in the slaughter of 1,200 Israeli and foreigners.

“This case is about the egregious and unaddressed rise in antisemitism at Cooper Union, which led to a group of Jewish students being locked in a campus library to shield them from an unruly mob of students that was calling for the destruction of Israel and worldwide violence against Jews,” ...

The suit claims that Cooper Union has sought to downplay the library incident, even though president Laura Sparks had a security officer stationed outside her office for the remainder of the fall semester.

The students later learned that city police officers offered to enter the building to intervene, but Sparks told them to “stand down,”

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Cooper Union took no disciplinary action against the offending “perpetrators,” many of whom covered their faces.

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The case against Cooper Union comes in the wake of several other lawsuits filed by The Lawfare Project against other universities, including Carnegie Mellon and Columbia, for allegedly failing to shield Jewish students from bigotry.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; carnegiemellon; columbia; cooperunion; harvard; manhattan; newyork

1 posted on 04/11/2024 2:53:50 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

They want you dead. Prepare accordingly.


2 posted on 04/11/2024 2:55:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: george76

These fake colleges like Harvard are also incubators of libtard hate


3 posted on 04/11/2024 2:57:45 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: george76

Face it, men. Your attackers are democrats. They will not be charged.


4 posted on 04/11/2024 2:58:47 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: george76

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty was attacked by the Israeli Air Force. 34 sailors (I WAS one at that time (was not on board the Liberty) were killed. 174 were wounded. Israel claimed it was an accident. There is ample forensic evidence and testimony to the contrary. As per usual, our government (with LBJ fresh off his successful cover up of Kennedy’s killers, leading the charge) did it’s best to obfuscate the truth.

57 years later, common sense and a modicum of IQ dictate that I support Israel in it’s fight against our common enemy.......”radical Islamists”. That said, I still hold Israel responsible for slaying 34 of my fellow sailors and will to my last day/breath.


5 posted on 04/11/2024 3:16:52 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Organic Panic

See my tag line.

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6 posted on 04/11/2024 3:21:38 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: george76

Sue them into bankruptcy.

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7 posted on 04/11/2024 3:35:52 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

‘67 Israeli attack on USS Liberty ordered by LBJ.. in an effort to promote regime change in Egypt...- Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty” by Joan Mellen ..

The day of the attack was “a beautiful day,” recalled Lt. Cmdr. David Edwin Lewis, the Liberty’s chief intelligence officer.. Israeli planes had flown over the Liberty nine times prior to the strike, including once that was so close that sailors were able to see and wave to the pilots, Lewis said. It was apparent that Israel knew who the Liberty was.

Adm. Lawrence R. Geis, the Sixth Fleet’s carrier division commander,.. the Fleet had twice launched relief aircraft to the Liberty and that each time they had been recalled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

When Geis challenged the second recall, Johnson came on the phone himself, the admiral told Lewis, who remembered Geis quoting the President saying that “I don’t give a damn if the ship sinks and all the Americans are killed..

Johnson had decided to destabilize Egyptian President Gamal Abel Nasser by blaming Egypt for the attack.

https://www.unionleader.com/news/history/new-book-says-israeli-attack-on-uss-liberty-in-1967-was-ordered-by-lbj/article_bb7eb7dd-e270-5994-a484-e18e710fe930.html


8 posted on 04/11/2024 3:45:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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I can’t figure out how this ties in with the college.


9 posted on 04/11/2024 3:58:12 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Leftys loved them some Israel when it was was run by Socalist Laubor.


10 posted on 04/11/2024 4:13:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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Jewish students who were trapped in Cooper Union by protesters sue college over anti-Semitism

As well they should! That is inexcusable. Psychopolitical lynch mobs.

11 posted on 04/11/2024 6:14:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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