Message should display for new products block in my right column but it does not

[5haun]

According to this code:

<div id="new-products_block_right" class="block products_block">
	<h4 class="title_block">
    	<a href="{$link->getPageLink('new-products')|escape:'html'}" title="{l s='New products' mod='blocknewproducts'}">{l s='New products' mod='blocknewproducts'}</a>
    </h4>
    <div class="block_content products-block">
        {if $new_products !== false}
            <ul class="products">
                {foreach from=$new_products item=newproduct name=myLoop}
                    <li class="clearfix">
                        <a class="products-block-image" href="{$newproduct.link|escape:'html'}" title="{$newproduct.legend|escape:html:'UTF-8'}"><img class="replace-2x img-responsive" src="{$link->getImageLink($newproduct.link_rewrite, $newproduct.id_image, 'small_default')|escape:'html'}" alt="{$newproduct.name|escape:html:'UTF-8'}" /></a>
                        <div class="product-content">
                        	<h5>
                            	<a class="product-name" href="{$newproduct.link|escape:'html'}" title="{$newproduct.name|escape:html:'UTF-8'}">{$newproduct.name|strip_tags|escape:html:'UTF-8'}</a>
                            </h5>
                        	<p class="product-description">{$newproduct.description_short|strip_tags:'UTF-8'|truncate:75:'...'}</p>
                            {if (!$PS_CATALOG_MODE AND ((isset($newproduct.show_price) && $newproduct.show_price) || (isset($newproduct.available_for_order) && $newproduct.available_for_order)))}
                            	{if isset($newproduct.show_price) && $newproduct.show_price && !isset($restricted_country_mode)}
                                    <div class="price-box">
                                        <span class="price">
                                        	{if !$priceDisplay}{convertPrice price=$newproduct.price}{else}{convertPrice price=$newproduct.price_tax_exc}{/if}
                                        </span>
                                    </div>
                                {/if}
                            {/if}
                        </div>
                    </li>
                {/foreach}
            </ul>
            <div>
                <a href="{$link->getPageLink('new-products')|escape:'html'}" title="{l s='All new products' mod='blocknewproducts'}" class="btn btn-default button button-small"><span>{l s='All new products' mod='blocknewproducts'}<i class="icon-chevron-right right"></i></span></a>
            </div>
        {else}
        	<p>» {l s='Do not allow new products at this time.' mod='blocknewproducts'}</p>
        {/if}
    </div>
</div>

The new products block should show "Do not allow new products at this time." when  there are no new products to display. But it does not do this. Instead the entire block disappears out of my right column.

Any ideas what's going on?