And today from the “Stuff That Should Have Surprised Nobody” files, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has decided to use his first veto in office to kill a measure designed to protect students and faculty at places of education from anti-Semitism by terrorist-supporting radicals.
According to Fox News, the bills to expand security for students at places of education, particularly Jewish students, was passed in March by the City Council by a 30-19.
Mamdani vetoed the bill because, in part, it might infringe upon “Palestinian rights.”
“The bill, Int. 175-B, requires New York law enforcement to develop a plan to contain the risk of physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation and interference at educational facilities while still allowing for freedom of assembly and First-Amendment events. The plan would then apply to ‘any building, structure, or place where educational programming takes place,’” Fox reported Friday.
“The problem is how widely this
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