The university falls of the Jewish-conferent lecturer scheduled for October 7

The counterpoup is accumulating against New York University after its law faculty decided to block an event on the campus with the conservative Jewish legal analyst Ilya Shapiro, who was planned for the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack in Hamas.

The Federalist Society section of the University had planned to welcome Shapiro for a noon discussion, but the event was canceled after the administrators of the NYU intervened.

The group was invited to welcome Shapiro to a different date due to “security reasons” and because the university declared that it provided “an increased probability of demonstrations and protests linked to the anniversary of the incidents of October 7, 2023 in Gaza”, according to the email shared with Fox News Digital. The request was then transformed into refusal to authorize the event during the anniversary week of October 7.

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“This is not a proposed program or speaker decision, but rather on the basis of an obligation to provide improved security generally on the campus during this week as well as resource commitments that we have already made,” said an e-mail on September 17 of Megan McDermott, dean associate of NYU for university and teachers. “For the sake of clarity and for future planning purposes, I do not know that anyone who has information suggesting that your proposed event would be subject to a disturbance or a protest specifically linked to the anniversary of the hostage taking of October 7.”

Shapiro had planned to discuss his next book during the NYU event, in which he postulates that the best law schools in the country were captured by an illiberal and ideological regime which promotes radicalism and supports ideological conformity on the open debate and the investigation. This change, argues, weakens, weakens the cultural and institutional railings protecting freedom of expression on campus.

Ilya Shapiro saw the floor during a series of conferences in 2016. Shapiro was previously vice-president of the Cato Institute in Washington, DC and is the main member and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. (YouTube)

“There could not be any more example on the nose of weak university officials in the face of a veto of Heckler than this farce,” said Shapiro in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I would be happy to give the dean of Nyu a copy of my book so that he can” do the work “to learn to be an effective and principle leader.”

A spokesperson for Nyu’s law faculty, Michael Ouy, told Fox News Digital that Nyu “had not canceled” the event of the Federalist Society, but rather “asked” that they find another date to welcome Shapiro.

“We did not cancel Mr. Shapiro’s appearance. When the students organizing the event asked for a classroom on October 7, they were informed that we could not welcome them on this date, and we then suggested alternative dates,” said Oury. “Mr. Shapiro is invited to come and speak here in Nyu Law and appeared here in the past. We are ready to work with the students to find a time for him to do so in the future.”

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A barrier is built outside the Stern School of Business from New York University in April 2024. The wall one day came after more than 100 people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the school. (Julia Bonavita / Fox News Digital)

“I was grateful to the NYU students for inviting me to discuss my book and the higher education crisis. I liked to speak in the past and I was looking forward to an animated discussion of important questions,” said Shapiro. “But alas, the administration of the Faculty of Law yielded to the threat of sectarian protest – God prohibits that there is a conservative Jewish speaker on October 7.”

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Shapiro published on X That the federalist society will rather welcome Shapiro in a place outside campus, alongside two federal judges and the former chief of the American civil liberties Union (ACLU), Nadine Strossen.