Woke NYU is ridiculed online after promoting guidance dedicated to helping students 'avoid offensive Halloween costumes' - amid outrage over anti-Israel protests

New York University has been ridiculed online for promoting guidance dedicated to helping students 'avoid offensive Halloween costumes'. 

The woke University promoted the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs' Halloween advice on its X (formally known as Twitter) account on October 30.

It pointed out that Halloween costumes can 'perpetuate harmful and negative stereotypes' - and highlighted tips to help people avoid causing offense.

But commenters were quick to slam the school for focusing on this issue instead of the recent spate of anti-Israel protests organized by its students, with some caught on camera tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. 

'They spend more time worrying about Halloween costumes than the safety of Jews on campus,' one person said. 

NYU posted Halloween costume guidelines for an 'anti-oppressive celebration' to its X account. The university has been under fire over anti-Israel protests

The CMEP first published these guidelines back in 2020 and the university decided to post them again to its account on Monday, the day before Halloween

The Halloween costume guidelines are filled with tips, questions and definitions explaining cultural appropriation and how to avoid causing offense

The President of NYU Linda Mills (pictured) 

The CMEP originally published the series of slides back in 2020, before reposting them again this week.

They highlight tips and questions for students to ask themselves when choosing Halloween costumes. 

One slide said: 'Are you portraying a certain group of people or environment as dangerous, silly, and/or inferior to dominant culture?' 

Another slide revealed that costumes should be addressed if they are 'offensive' or 'oppressive'. 

The center went on to define what cultural appropriation is, along with a caption encouraging people to 'educate yourself about the harmful impacts of cultural appropriation and consider ways to hold yourself and others accountable not only this Halloween but every day.' 

John Beckman, a spokesman for NYU told Dailymail.com the guidance on costumes asks people to use 'common sense and good judgement.' 

'It's nothing new- we've issued it annually for a few years now,' Beckman added.  

But the move has riled commenters on social media, who are furious about a spate of anti-Semitic protests led by NYU students in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.  

One said said: 'Stop enabling antisemitism!' 

'NYU. You know what is scary? Having antisemits [sic] as staff or students. Apparently NYU stands for kidnapping kids,' another said. 

Another one simply said: @nyuniversity shut up already!' 

Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU's School of Law sent an email in early October to university members that stated that Hamas' slaughter of children in Israel was 'necessary'

In the middle of the protest in Washington Square Park, a handful of young Jewish men sang and prayed in the face of the antiSemitic signs 

In early October NYU Law School Bar Association's non-binary president Ryna Workman sent an email to university members that stated that Hamas' slaughter of children in Israel was 'necessary'. 

New York University told DailyMail.com that Workman's statement 'does not in any way reflect the point of view of NYU.'

University spokesman John Beckman said: 'Acts of terrorism are immoral. The indiscriminate killing of civilians and hostage-taking, including children and the elderly, is reprehensible. Blaming victims of terrorism for their own deaths is wrong.'

Following their controversial email, Workman, who goes by the pronouns they/them said that they never 'intended' to be insensitive to the plight of Israelis, 1,400 of whom were killed by Hamas. 

Workman was soon ousted from her position at NYU following her anti-Israel statement, but doubled down and proposed a nation-wide college walkout in support of Palestine.

'Our institutions are investing in the genocidal siege of Palestine. Their money, their words, and programs make Israel's occupation and violence possible.

'They try to silence us, because they need us to be afraid, confused, and divided. But we, as a united movement for Palestinian liberation, choose to dissent,' they said in a post. 

New York University has not commented on Workman's second response, but the school is investigating the anti-Semitic protests that Workman organized at Washington Square Park on October 25. 

Deyhimi, a third-year student at NYU who once worked for the Anti-Defamation League and a self-acclaimed 'activist,' confessed to tearing down the banners that were plastered outside NYU's Tisch Hall and tossing them in the trash

NYU Yazmeen Deyhimi student admitted to tearing down posters of Israeli hostages - blaming her exploits on 'misplaced anger' - as her accomplice is ID'ed as a Muslim Youth leader

Dozens of Gen Z protesters waved pride flags and wore kaffiyehs as they demanded 'freedom for Palestine' and a 'divestment' of Israel's 'genocidal regime'. 

There was also a handful of hateful youngsters, including one young woman who held up a pink sign that read: 'Keep the world clean', with an illustration of the Star of David in a trash can. 

NYU spokesman John Beckman told DailyMail.com the school is working to verify the identities of the pair.

'These signs are antiSemitic, repugnant, and a disgrace. We don't know the identity of the people pictured, but we take this seriously and will be looking into it.

'To be clear, antiSemitism violates the University's rules and violators are subject to university conduct proceedings.'

Another NYU student, Yazmeen Deyhimi admitted to tearing down posters of Israeli hostages and she blamed her exploits on 'misplaced anger'. 

Deyhimi, a junior at NYU who once worked for the Anti-Defamation League and a self-acclaimed 'activist,' confessed to tearing down the flyers of hostages that were plastered outside NYU's Tisch Hall and tossed them in the trash. 

'From Integration to Anti-Racism' was an all-white course offered by NYU to public school parents in July. It was hosted to teach them how to unlearn racism away from racial minorities

Parents were assigned a number of antiracist texts, including Robin DiAngelo's 'White Fragility'

Meanwhile, back in July the university came under fire for hosting a white-only anti-racism workshop for public school parents in New York City so they can 'unlearn' their prejudice without 'traumatizing' minorities. 

The five-month-long course which cost $360 was run by Barbara Gross, Steinhardt's associate director of the school's Education Justice Research group, who claimed that 'people of color are dealing with racism all the time. Like, every minute of every day.'

The educators who ran the course distributed a document produced by the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere, which informed the class that the reason the seminar was being kept all white was so attendees could 'unlearn racism' without inflicting 'undue trauma or pain' on minorities in the process.