Jewish Ally Confronted By Police, Referred to Student Conduct for Posting Flyers Next to Racist Content
Latest example of anti-Jewish discrimination by UCF illuminates double standards
Around midnight yesterday, an ally of the Jewish community was confronted by three police officers for the crime of posting flyers without antisemitic content.
The student attempted to post the commonly-seen hostage flyers, which raise awareness for their plight while not providing any additional political messaging, in areas with existing antisemitic and racist content. In the process of doing so, the student was confronted at around 12:15 AM by three police officers, who ordered them to cease posting flyers and take down the existing ones. The student obliged, although they found that all of their flyers had already been taken down.
The student reports that when asked why flyers of the hostages had to come down, but flyers with antisemitic messaging did not, the responding officers had no answer.
Today, the student received notice that they had been referred to the UCF Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, and had been requested to appear for a hearing “to address the referral in a non disciplinary manner.”
The referral can be reasonably viewed as an act of intimidation by the school, in addition to constituting anti-Jewish discrimination in of itself, since no similar referrals or conduct reports have been made against students posting anti-Jewish content.
We will keep you posted about this developing situation.