NYU sued by Jewish students accusing school of antisemitism on campus
Three students filed a lawsuit against NYU on Tuesday and accused the school of creating a hostile environment for Jewish students.
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New York University (NYU) was sued on Tuesday by Jewish students accusing the school of creating antisemitism on campus.
Three students - Bella Ingber, Sabrina Maslavi, and Saul Tawil - claimed NYU has created a hostile environment in which Jewish students are subjected to antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment, and intimidation.
The students filed their complaint in Manhattan federal court and claimed their school has refused to enforce its own policies against bigotry.
They said the school has allowed chants such as “gas the Jews” and “Hitler was right.”
Marc Kasowitz, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said in a statement: “NYU’s deliberate indifference towards the plight of its Jewish students under siege by egregious antisemitism has been outrageous.”
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The students added that antisemitism had been a “growing institutional problem” at NYU even before the war between Israel and Hamas began following the terrorist group’s October 7 attack.
Their document said that Jewish students’ complaints are “ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting” by NYU administrators.
They include new President Linda Mills in that group, who they say has falsely dismissed antisemitism on campus as “overstated.”
The complaint said that NYU has violated federal civil rights law by allowing “the same anti-Jewish vitriol the Nazis propagated eighty years ago.”
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The students also claimed the school breached its duties to provide them with the education they expected when they enrolled.
The lawsuit asks for NYU to terminate employees - administrators and professors - and suspend or expel students who engage in such abuse.
These parties would also be required to pay compensatory and punitive damages.
NYU has not yet commented on the situation.
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