NYU’s Israeli alumni cut ties over president ‘whitewashing’ antisemitic chant as ‘not that bad’
By Social Links forJoshua Rhett Miller
Published Nov. 21, 2023, 1:50 p.m. ET
New York University’s Israeli alumni severed ties with the institution Tuesday over its failure to tackle antisemitism — and after its president allegedly played down the incendiary “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant as “not that bad.”
The 2,000-strong NYU Alumni Club of Israel slammed NYU president Linda Mills and told board of trustees chairman Evan Chesler that it would drop ties until the institution tackled antisemitism head-on.
The group wrote to Mills and Chesler after a series of on-campus incidents, including a junior admitting to tearing down posters of Hamas kidnapping victims and a “hostile takeover” of Bobst Library earlier this month at which a masked protester was caught on video repeatedly spitting on a banner bearing the word “Jewish.”
One group of Jewish students said they faced chants of “Hitler was right” and “Gas the Jews.”
https://nypost.com/2023/11/21/news/nyus-israeli-alumni-cuts-ties-over-antisemitism/
