FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are challenging Princeton University's use of no-contact orders, which they claim are being improperly used to silence student journalists, particularly those covering pro-Israel topics. Critics argue that these orders are being weaponized without due process to censor conservative voices, effectively shutting down journalists for over a year. The practice has been seen as a betrayal of the university's stated commitment to free speech and a way to suppress conservative Jewish students by pro-Palestinian students.
Remember President Eisgruber touting Princeton’s supposed commitment to free speech? The university has been allowing pro-Palestinian students to get “no-contact orders” against conservative Jewish students trying to report on protests: @abigailandwords: https://t.co/CqLs83C4LB
Abigail Anthony: Princeton 'No-Communication' Orders Are Violation of Free-Speech Policies, ADL, FIRE Allege | National Review Amazing to see how expansively these orders are imposed and applied https://t.co/skJr2KDeuM
This is repellent. Princeton is weaponizing disagreements on its campus and turning them into fora for disciplinary action to shut up conservatives. President Eisgruber is a bad person. Not a bad president. A bad person. https://t.co/4XUj5CZVXa
Princeton is letting students who dislike student reporting slap the journalist with a no-contact order, without a modicum of due process, and where the reporter has done nothing wrong. And by the way, this has been going on, and Princeton's known about it, for OVER a year. https://t.co/SMrlONQYTd
FIRE and ADL to Princeton: “This systematic weaponization of no-contact orders to silence pro-Israel journalism — or any journalism — cannot stand.” @NRO https://t.co/PPYuQQPe9G
JUST SENT: FIRE and the @ADL are challenging @Princeton’s ongoing improper use of no-contact orders, allowing them to be weaponized against student journalists. https://t.co/MiVnYZNLHV