Antisemitism may be one of the most, if not the civilized world's most ancient hatreds, and it resurfaces with baffling regularity. Most recently, hatred of the Jewish people is rearing its ugly head on American college campuses, where young skulls full of mush whose grandfathers may well have helped liberate German death camps are wearing kaffiyehs and screaming Hamas slogans. 

At one school, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, is being sued by Jewish students who were locked by security personnel into a school library to protect them from their fellow students, who had been whipped into an antisemitic rage, in October 2023.

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Now, the students are suing Cooper Union. Cooper Union has asked for a dismissal, which a judge has now rather forcefully denied; the case will proceed.

Wow! This judge in the Jewish students vs Cooper Union case is not holding back; CU's request for dismissal of the Title VI case was denied!

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"The Court is dismayed by Cooper Union’s suggestion that the Jewish students should have hidden upstairs or left the building,… pic.twitter.com/QhAeEfw9a9

— Melanie Notkin (@SavvyAuntie) February 5, 2025

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Wow! This judge in the Jewish students vs Cooper Union case is not holding back; CU's request for dismissal of the Title VI case was denied! 

READ THIS! "The Court is dismayed by Cooper Union’s suggestion that the Jewish students should have hidden upstairs or left the building, or that locking the library doors was enough to discharge its obligations under Title VI. These events took place in 2023—not 1943—and Title VI places responsibility on colleges and universities to protect their Jewish students from harassment, not on those students to hide themselves away in a proverbial attic or attempt to escape from a place they have a right to be. In sum, the physically threatening or humiliating conduct that the Complaint alleges Jewish students in the library experienced “is entirely outside the ambit of the free speech clause..."

United States District Judge John P. Cronan denied the motion to dismiss. He wrote in the order:

The Hamas massacre and Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza unleashed a wave of campus antisemitism at colleges and universities across the United States. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ("Cooper Union"), a private college located in New York City, was no exception. On October 23, 2023, pro-Palestinian students defaced the colonnade windows of Cooper Union's Foundation Building --and building that housed the schools administrative offices, a number of classrooms, and the school's only library - with signs that described Jews as "settlers" and justified Hamas's massacre as a "counterattack."

Imagine being a Jewish student on this campus while this was going on - and being forced to hide behind locked doors to escape the pro-Hamas mob. 

Today. In the United States of America.

Cooper Union's motion to dismiss this case is rightfully denied by Judge Cronan. This isn't a case of lawfare. It's not a First Amendment case. It's a case of American students having to hide from what surely would have been a violent assault, perhaps resulting in deaths; these are, after all, Hamas supporters, it's not unreasonable, under the circumstances, for the Jewish students to have feared the worst.

Cooper Union allowed this to happen. Consequences for the hate-filled antisemitic students have been minimal when there have been any at all. This is what our legal system is supposed to do; provide citizens with an avenue for the redress of grievances. With Judge Cronan's decision, that avenue is now open.

You can read the court's complete order here.