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Hafiza Khalique, an NYU freshman, was targeted and suspended for exercising her constitutionally-protected right to free expression. NYU’s suspension of Hafiza is baseless, and the unsubstantiated leveraging of university policy against her is nothing short of targeted discrimination against a Muslim student. This discrimination is a historic overstep by NYU and requires immediate institutional rectification.

Per the university’s own admission, at least 90 students are facing disciplinary proceedings of varying severities for participating in Palestine advocacy on campus. Such action—led by NYU President Linda G. Mills and NYU’s board—have passed the realm of standard McCarthyist blacklisting that accompanies Palestine advocacy, and stands firmly in the space of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia.

NYU has the responsibility of protecting all its students, regardless of their race, class, religion, or political identification. Instead, at a time in which anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias incidents have risen by 216% (⅕ of which being free-speech related assaults), NYU has made it’s campus inhospitable for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students who defy the status quo on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. NYU’s targeted discrimination of Hafiza, are an explicit endorsement of the type of Anti-Arab and Islamophic rhetoric that is currently pervading every segment of our society, and which manifests in real, tangible ways. Just last week, we saw the unconscionable attack on three Palestinian students in Vermont. As an institution, NYU has a responsibility to protect ALL its students, including its Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ones.  

Therefore, we demand the following:

1. The immediate reinstatement of all students suspended for Palestine activism; including Hafiza Khalique as a student of NYU;  

2. The immediate cease and desist of all disciplinary proceedings targeting Palestine advocacy, and apology from NYU for its:

   1. Engagement in explicit anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic repression of student activism on campus; and

   2. Failure to protect vulnerable students during a time of increased violence against these communities; and

3. A commitment from NYU to protecting Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students from doxxing, harassment and campus repression going forward.

NYU cannot be allowed to continue to abandon its students, and we will not stay silent when students are doxxed, harassed, and made unsafe on their campuses.