Like many other campuses around the world, New York University has seen its students protest the university’s ties to weapon manufacturers and other institutions that are profiting off the slaughter in Gaza or enabling it. Like many other campuses, NYU has been doing its best to curtail these protests and punish the students involved.
Unlike many other campuses, however, punishments include being told to watch The Simpsons and write what the NYU law professor Liam Murphy recently described in an open letter to leadership as “coerced confessions of wrongdoing”.
Before The Simpsons, however, some background: there have been protests at NYU for several months but things came to a head on 22 April, when the NYPD removed the Gaza Solidarity encampment at NYU’s Gould Plaza and arrested more than 100 people. Sixty-five of them were students, faculty, or staff. …..more
