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,'” Foxreported Friday.

“The problem is how widely this bill defines an educational institution and the constitutional concerns it raises regarding New Yorkers’ fundamental right to protest,” Mamdani said in astatement.

“As the bill is written, everywhere from universities to museums to teaching hospitals could face restrictions.

“This could impact workers protesting ICE, or college students demanding their school divest from fossil fuels or demonstrating in support of Palestinian rights,” he continued.

“Int. 175-B is not a narrow public safety measure; it is a piece of legislation that has alarmed much of the labor movement, reproductive rights groups, and immigration advocates, among others, across this City. Nearly a dozen unions have raised the alarm about its impact on their ability to organize.”

This is effectively nonsense. Thebillis actually pretty straightforward: It requires the police commissioner to “address and contain the risk of physical obstruction, physical injury, intimidation, and interference, while preserving and protecting the rights to free speech and assembly, and protest, at educational facilities.”

As for the broad definition part? It defines educational facilities as “any building, structure, or place where educational programming takes place. Such term includes but is not limited to public and nonpublic childcare programs, early childhood programs, elementary schools, middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, colleges, and universities.”

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