Why is New York University making protesters watch The Simpsons as punishment?

In what a professor calls an intellectual embarrassment', the school is requiring students to complete a bizarre training

Like many other campuses around the world, New York University has seen its students protest the university's ties to weapon manufacturers and other institutions that are profiting off the slaughter in Gaza or enabling it. Like many other campuses, NYU has been doing its best to curtail these protests and punish the students involved.

Unlike many other campuses, however, punishments include being told to watch The Simpsons and write what the NYU law professor Liam Murphy recently described in an open letter to leadership as coerced confessions of wrongdoing".