A U.S. district judge rejected Cooper University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by Jewish students over failure to protect them from antisemitism on campus.
A New York judge called out a university in New York for its lack of action amid increasing antisemitism while denying its motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Jewish students. The judge said that Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a small private four-year college located in Lower Manhattan, must face charges for neglecting to help Jewish students who had to lock themselves in a library during an anti-Israel rally on Oct. 25, 2023.
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,' Cronan wrote. Cronan added, '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.
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