A New York University (NYU) lecturer, Darren King, was caught on tape on campus two weeks ago taking off posters of Israeli children and women being held hostage by Hamas.
His video, which was first released by the X (previously Twitter) account of @StopAntisemites, has subsequently gone viral across all social media platforms. It depicts Darren King wearing a navy-blue padded jacket, holding a backpack, and ripping a bunch of posters off a city poster board. He was accompanied by another man wearing a brown hoodie.
While the guy behind the camera warned Darren King not to rip the posters, he didn’t appear to listen and began tearing them down.
According to @visegrad24’s tweet, King has been charged with breaking NY Penal Laws 145 and 145.14. The account also claimed that Darren King’s work at NYU has been suspended indefinitely by attorney Ronald Richards.
Darren King’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious magazines
The Jamaican-American Darren King, who is now a professor and post-doctoral student at New York University, previously worked as a professor at the University of Texas’ Department of Mathematics, according to the university’s official website’s instructors’ information portal.
From 2007 to 2010, he attended the University of the West Indies, where he received a bachelor’s degree in economics with a minor in international relations. King later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas between 2016 and 2021. Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory were his areas of study.
He was a teaching assistant in Differential Calculus (Fall 2017) and Differential Equations in Linear Algebra (Spring and Fall 2018) at the University of Texas. Later, as a teaching assistant, King taught real analysis at the institution in the fall of 2020.
Darren King also supervised five undergraduate students from underrepresented minority groups at the University of Texas as part of the Directed Reading Program at the Department of Mathematics.
King also completed the Texas Institute of Discovery Education in Science’s Concentration in Teaching and Mentoring Program. Between 2016 and 2017, he also received a mentoring fellowship from the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences.
The smoothness of collapsed regions in a capillarity model for soap films, collapsing and the convex hull property in a soap film capillarity model, and Plateau’s problem as a unique limit of capillarity problems are some of his journal publications.
The internet reacts to Darren King’s contentious conduct
Darren King, a post-doctoral student and professor at NYU, was seen taking up posters of Israelis allegedly seized by the Hamas group following the October 7 Israel-Palestine war.
His name was recently uncovered, and he has faced criticism for his antisemitic actions since then. Here’s how people reacted in the @StopAntisemites comment area.
The ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict began on October 7 when the Palestine-based Hamas group launched an attack on Israel, which was met with a counter-attack. So far, it has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides.
According to the BBC, approximately 1200 Israelis have been killed, and many are supposedly being held hostage by Hamas, including 30 children. Similarly, the Gaza Health Ministry reported last week that over 10,000 Palestinians had died, including children, women, and the elderly, with over 35,000 injured.