CAIR: A Wall Street Law Firm Wants to Define Consequences of Anti-Israel Protests – New York Times
To Sullivan & Cromwell’s critics, the policy is an effort to silence criticism of Israel on campus and to paint all protesters as equivalent to those who have been heckling and threatening Jewish students.
“When we went through big law recruitment, we knew your social media better be clean, you better not have on there anything that you can’t defend, you have to be a respectable person to be able to get a job at any of these places,” said Rawda Fawaz, a lawyer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “That has always been the practice. Why do you have to have a special policy on this?”
Ms. Fawaz, who worked as an associate at a large law firm after graduating from Columbia University Law School in 2022, said many Muslims and Arabs working for big firms already felt discouraged from discussing their views on Israel and its actions.
“Your political activism is part of your identity,” she said. “In a way, it’s good because law students will know who they can work for and still maintain their identity.”
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