https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled “NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’” #NYU #Academia #FreeSpeech #USPolitics #USAID
#NYU #USAID #DrJoanneLiu
The former international head of Doctors Without Borders says she was left “stunned” after [NYU] canceled her presentation because some of her slides discussing cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) could be viewed as “anti-governmental”.
NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled
Cowards and collaborators in academia. #NYU
If you can't speak about and against the government in the US, there's no reason for the country to exist.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled
One day, maybe soon, we will stop being shocked by news like this, but that day is not today.
#NYU canceled a speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she was going to discuss the genocide in #Gaza. A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as #antisemitic"
New York University obeying in advance: sees 'potentially anti-government (i.e. anti-Trump regime)' slides, cancels guest presentation.
Also afraid that talking about the number of humanitarian workers killed by Israel in Gaza may be antisemitic.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/
#NYU
heading back for another research appointment at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives today, looking at old musician's union (local 802) papers from 1922 onwards. (I was there 2 weeks ago but didn't remotely finish looking at stuff.) great at connecting dots in other parts of my research even though the detailed record only starts around 3 decades into the period of organized Jewish musician labor in New York..
Joanne Liu, Québécoise and former president of #MSF had her talk cancelled at New York University because one of her slides showed how many humanitarian aid workers died in Gaza and also showed it was the deadliest place for aid workers in 2024.
Apparently it is antisemitic to show this data (that's what they told her)
I've only seen the news in Francophone medias so far
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2150976/conference-joanne-liu-annulation-universite-new-york
« Elle me dit que le président du département craint que ma présentation ne soit perçue comme antisémite, car on y trouve un tableau tiré de l’Aid Worker Security Database qui démontre qu’un des lieux où il y a eu le plus de victimes humanitaires en 2024 était la bande de #Gaza. »
Dre #JoanneLiu : « Ma présentation a été annulée par l’#UniversitéDeNewYork »
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/860185/presentation-ete-annulee-universite-new-york
#NYU #USpol #politiqueAméricaine #censure #Palestine @palestine
American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio
A case challenging the #Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.
"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizens’ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.
"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.
"The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."
Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.
Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
American Association of University Professors [#AAUP], Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
Source:
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases
Quantum many-body simulations with PauliStrings.jl
Nicolas Loizeau, J. Clayton Peacock, Dries Sels
Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 54 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.54
PauliStrings.jl v1.5:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 54-r1.5 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.54-r1.5
Anyone who has applied to #NYU in the past 15 years should be aware that their #PII has been #leaked earlier today; see https://nyunews.com/news/2025/03/22/nyu-website-hacked-data-leak/. The public release includes names (not redacted despite claim otherwise), place of birth, city of residence, racial and immigration markers, past education, as well as programs and decisions; addresses and #SSN's are redacted which implies possession by the hacker as well. FREEZE YOUR CREDIT NOW!
AAAAAH! there’s protests going on at #ColumbiaU ? so there must be also at #NYU cuz been hearing nothing but the stupid sputtering sirens of NYPD cars and the noisy fluttering of helicopters.
solidarity with students, forever and ever, rahmen.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Community_Reports
LHC EFT WG note: Basis for anomalous quartic gauge couplings
Gauthier Durieux, Grant N. Remmen, Nicholas L. Rodd, Oscar J. P. Éboli, Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Dan Kondo, Hitoshi Murayama, Risshin Okabe
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 6 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.6
Child, at #NYU, called me today. They go to a #Broadway show about once a month; one of the reasons they wanted to go to school in #NYC. They said they felt snobby because they have not been to an #OffBroadway show. I said you are not snobby until you go to a few Off-Broadway shows! I think they understood.
I hope they go to some Off-Broadway shows.
A Well-Connected NYU Parent Is Trying to Get Students Deported
"When comparing NYU’s interactions with Rand to its reaction to students demonstrating against the war on Gaza, Samalin and Karl see a case of preferential treatment. NYU has disciplined and suspended pro-Palestine students, and issued “persona non grata” status to three faculty members last month, barring their access to campus buildings. Samalin also said its administrators have resisted meeting with members of its academic community who have been demanding NYU’s divestment from Israel since 2023, though the school entered into negotiations with protesters in April. At the same time, Mills has been personally corresponding with a parent over matters of discipline.
“This question of access to her is itself bound up with questions about punishment and discrimination on campus,” Samalin said.
“There’s very little confidence in the disciplinary process at our school,” Samalin said. “And this could be the final straw because it’s just so obvious that there’s this double standard that applies.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/31/nyu-gaza-protesters-deport-maca-antisemitism/
Ooh, this event is a week after I arrive in NY. Definitely going to try and go in person; it's a hybrid event with the zoom link here:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RMIJrnTbSNybhWoC6cUE1A?fbclid=IwY2xjawH3r0VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYo4WWezeJPXPObNunWWxeRP_r7phkjLe3d9mNEKppRKrWCFoyiNwhAC-A_aem_n5O7gjbSOqPsLj_ykG1wCw#/registration
@eff @pluralistic #scottgalloway #nyu #sternBschool prof #scottgalloway yesterday on @msnbc #morningjoe effective on meta google need to break up. No problem doing it anyway - parts worth more than the sum #bellbreakup cha Ching
