New York University has “magically found a way to host” an event featuring law scholar Ilya Shapiro, agreeing to secure a venue for the speech on campus after administrators initially canceled the event, citing security concerns.

The event is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 7 — the two-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel — and will go on as originally planned, the Federalist Society announced late Friday.

“NYU has now agreed to host the NYU FedSoc student event featuring @ishapiro on campus on October 7th,” the group posted on X.

“…On the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack, the Federalist Society will host a live panel discussion on these recent free speech controversies, why protecting freedom of speech is central to the Western tradition, the significance of October 7 to the Jewish community, and campus anti-semitism concerns.”

NYU’s decision initially went viral and prompted steep criticism from many observers.

Shapiro, on his Substack, wrote on Saturday that “I was going to talk about my book Lawless but administrators feared protestors. The Federalist Society set an offsite event with federal judges joining me, so NYU magically found a way to host.”

Shapiro added:

Higher-education grandees just haven’t learned yet. Through some combination of malice and incompetence—and structural ideological bias—NYU Law told the school’s Federalist Society chapter that it couldn’t host me on October 7 because of “security concerns.” Then the story changed in several disingenuous manners, such that they host me, just not that (next) week. But the bottom line is that they either canceled or forbade—what lawyers call a “prior restraint”—a non-progressive Jewish speaker from speaking on the second anniversary of the worst day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. It was a classic heckler’s (or assassin’s) veto.

According to The Times of Israel, “anti-Israel groups in New York City have announced widespread protests on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the Hamas attack.”

As The College Fix previously reported, the Manhattan Institute scholar is no stranger to law school cancel culture.

Shapiro planned to lead a constitutional studies center at Georgetown University beginning in 2022 but was essentially compelled to resign from the position following a lengthy investigation into a social media post he made criticizing President Joe Biden’s plan to appoint a Supreme Court justice on the basis of race and sex.

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