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by Izzy Salant

On Oct. 25, 2023, a little more than two weeks after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, anti-Israel protesters screamed “free Palestine” and pounded on a door at a Cooper Union library, as Jewish students, including two wearing kippahs, hid within. (JNS sought comment from Cooper Union.)

The private school blamed the Jewish students for gathering “in a prominent place in the library where they could be seen by the demonstrators” and for refusing a recommendation to hide “in the windowless upstairs portion of the library out of the demonstrators’ sight,” per the judge’s decision.

Cooper Union also faulted them for not escaping “the library through the back exit,” he added.

“These events took place in 2023—not 1943—and Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themselves away in a proverbial attic or attempt to escape from a place they have a right to be,” the judge said.

“In sum, the physically threatening or humiliating conduct that the complaint alleges Jewish students in the library experienced ‘is entirely outside the ambit of the free speech clause’” and “was objectively severe,” the judge wrote.

“The court is dismayed by Cooper Union’s suggestion that the Jewish students should have hidden upstairs or left the building, or that locking the library doors was enough to discharge its obligations under Title VI,” the judge added.

“The judge was not impressed at Cooper Union’s ‘why couldn’t the Jews just hide in the attic?’ argument,” wrote Jason Bedrick, a Heritage Foundation research fellow.

This Day in History: Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech

On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln gives a speech that would propel him toward the presidency. He wasn’t yet the well-known figure that we think of today. To the contrary, his New York audience was being introduced to him for the first time.

They knew him only as the Illinois lawyer who had engaged in a series of debates with Senator Stephen A. Douglas two years earlier.

“No man ever made such an impression on his first appearance to a New York audience,” the New York Tribune soon concluded.

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 25, 2023

H/T @scartale-an-undertale-au 

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