The Lawfare Project announced on the third anniversary of the deadly Oct.7 Hamas attacks on Israel that it filed a lawsuit against The New School on behalf of a Jewish Israeli-American student it alleged faced "relentless antisemitic harassment, intimidation, and physical assault" as a student at the New York university.According to the legal group, New School student Sophie Shabot faced numerous instances of name-calling, intimidation and obstruction based on her religion and support for Israel at the Parsons School of Design.
She was reportedly called names like "Zio b----" and "baby killer" and prevented from entering the University Center.In another instance, protesters allegedly vandalized and disrupted a Hillel event featuring an Israeli speaker in 2024.Shabot was among several Jewish students who were trapped in a dean's office as a group of protesters attempted to have them turn over the speaker.JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT A ‘CROSSING POINT’ AS STUDENTS WEIGH ANTISEMITISM RISKS, NEW REPORT SHOWSThe Lawfare Project alleged that Sophie Shabot faced ongoing harassment and threats about her religion and background.
(David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters)According to The Lawfare Project, university officials failed to stop the harassment against Shabot and other Jewish students and even "at times rewarded those responsible.""There is no question in my mind that the New School violated its Title VI obligations and other obligations under the law in not intervening and taking meaningful action to stop the antisemitic, anti-Israeli harassment that my plaintiff endured while she was at the New School," Lawfare Project director of litigation Ziporah Reich told Fox News Digital.Reich, who also filed the lawsuit, added that more often than not, Jewish students like Shabot were the ones who faced consequences at universities following antisemitic actions by other students."If the pro-Hamas protesters are essentially threatening your physical safety when you're trying to have a Jew...