Back home in New Jersey, she enrolled in self-defense classes and purchased a Taser for safety.
In September, NYU filed the complaint of Ms. Cojab concluded at the Office of Civil Rights and outlined the steps to address anti-Semitism on campus, as outlined in the president’s executive order. But the school did not concede any violations, nor did it mention the portion of the executive order that cited examples of anti-Israel speech as anti-Semitic.
Meanwhile, the conflict continues, with or without students on campus. Universities are left in the middle to balance incompatible imperatives.
Columbia President Lee Bollinger reaffirmed the school’s commitment to free speech, but promised to disregard the student referendum on rejection. NYU President Andrew D. Hamilton has expressed concern over the cancellation of the webinar with Ms. Khaled, but he also complained to the professors who sponsored it.
For now, however, the virtual campus makes it easy not to listen to each other, and to refuse to “normalize” an opposing view. Instead, both sides dig into their own moral narratives, says Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Center for the Study of Hate at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and the man who defines the working definition of anti- Semitism is in the executive order of mr. Trump appeal. Mr. Stern said the definition is intended for data collection, not for regulating the campus debate.
‘The reality is that both arguments are true, and to understand the case, you must not only choose one side and fight the other, you must say that both people have indigenous demands, and one can get the matter out. the Jewish perspective, that of course we have always been there, and the Palestinians can say, “We have been here for a long time and we are indigenous.” Both things are true. ”
History is “confused,” he said, with “justice on both sides and injustice on both sides.”
Even without distance education, students have little incentive to see the other view and strong support for hardening their own figures.
Mr. Stern said softly, “It makes conversations very difficult.”