City University of New York
| City University of New York | |
|---|---|
| City: | New York, NY |
| Type: | Public |
| Students: | 516,000[1] |
| Faculty: | 6,700 full-time teaching faculty members[1] |
| Website: | cuny.edu |
City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university in the United States.
It is a bastion for progressives.
Liberal privileges
CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez’s salary is approx. $670,000 annually. His housing stipend is approx. $90,000 annually. He is provided with an SUV, driver and does not pay for gas or tolls.
In addition, CUNY received $2.8 billion in governmental funding for 2022.[2]
Controversy
At least since 2015,[3] beginning with SJP "Palestine" "activists" inciting aggressive campaign such as BDS and extreme propaganda defamation, anti-Jewish atmosohere grew.[4]
It worsened in 2022.[5]
In 2022 it had (former president of NY SJP) infamous Nerdeen Kiswani, "palestinian" hateful "activist" (who had interrupted Holocaust Memorial ceremonies,[6] called for global intifadah and had praised axe murder of Jews.[7] Kiswani is the perfect example of the radical who whines about being victimized for her aggressive activism—what The New Criterion’s Roger Kimball has defined as a “cry-bully,” someone “who has weaponized his coveted status as a victim"[8]), as a commencement speaker where she spewed her venom.[6] Her co-activist in "WOL", Saadah Masoud was charged for hate crime violence.[9]
After a fury over alarming Antisemitism at CUNY, It has been punishing professors for complaining about campus antisemitism.[10] It announced that it's conducting an investigation. The very hypocritical "activists" bigots protested Antisemitism investigation by hurling the R word.[11] Yet, CUNY's liberal management hired, ironically, a rather bigoted group's former leader, Saly Abd Alla, previously of CAIR.[12]
Soon, "CUNY became America’s most anti-Semitic university."[13]
In May 2023, Islamic commencement speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed (SJP member) slammed City University of New York (CUNY) Law for supporting ‘fascist’ (sic) NYPD, oppressive systems.[14] (Despite CUNY record of radical left). YouTube[15] initially took the speech down but then after an uproar by radical leftist groups supporting 'Defund Police'. But especially after protest by Islamist lobby CAIR, they reposted the vile speech back online. NYC's Mayor Eric Adams slammed CUNY law grad for ‘negativity and divisiveness’ after calling for attacks on ‘fascist’ police and military.[16] A bill proposed funding cuts after anti-Semitic CUNY Law graduation speech.[17]
Not surprisingly, Islamic bigot, Mehdi Hasan’s defended anti-Semitic hate speech by Fatima Mohammed, via 'deceitful defense of an Antisemitic screed.'[18]
Professors who resigned from CUNY’s faculty union due to the union's antisemitism & BDS support are suing to sever ties with the union. According to NY state law, the union still has the right to represent the profs in collective bargaining.[19]
Facts is, that Anti-Israel CUNY graduation speakers led 2022 rally linked to antisemitic assault. Leading the bloody march were two protesters studying law at the City University of New York’s law school, Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mohammed, members of an activist group connected to other antisemitic attacks in New York.[20]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About." cuny.edu.
- ↑
CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez’s salary is approx. $670,000 annually
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 30, 2023.His housing stipend is approx. $90,000 annually
He is provided with an SUV, driver and does not pay for gas or tolls.
Meanwhile, CUNY received $2.8 billion in governmental funding for 2022.
Thank… pic.twitter.com/B7AlJKJ5Fk - ↑ An education in tolerance: CUNY must end anti-Jewish agitation on campus NY Daily News, Feb 25, 2016
- ↑ Danielle Wallace, Protesters at NYC public college hijack Zoom lecture with anti-Semitic rhetoric, Jewish students say, Fox News, June 10, 2021.
Jewish student at Hunter College CUNY says it felt 'like a virtual mob'.
- ↑ Taylor Penley, NYC councilwoman calls out CUNY schools' alleged antisemitism: 'There has been no accountability', Fox News, June 2, 2022.
CUNY Law School faculty and students unanimously favored anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Vernikov told "Fox & Friends First" hosts Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus on Thursday that CUNY campuses hold histories rife with antisemitism and that the discrimination has gone "unnoticed" for quite some time.
"There has been no accountability for the leadership, and we need to do something to fight against antisemitism," she said. - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Starr, NYC Councilwoman pulls CUNY law school funds over anti-Israel stance, May 29, 2023.
"It's not because of her Palestinian identity, it's because she interrupts Holocaust memorial ceremonies and says that she hopes the last thing Zionists hear in their life is 'pop pop.' She says crazy, violent things and it's f**king cheered on."
- ↑ Pesach Benson, Annihilate Israel': City University of NY Speaker Praised Axe Murder of Jews UWI, May 22, 2022.
- ↑ Richard L. Cravatts, Rewarding and valorizing Jew-hatred at CUNY, JNS, May 18, 2022.
Most troubling is that Nerdeen Kiswani, who has spouted anti-Israel invective for years, was chosen to give a commencement address at the law school not in spite of her radical speech, but because of it.
- ↑ Luke Tress, US feds charge pro-Palestinian protester with hate crime for antisemitic attack, TOI July 2, 2022
- ↑ Mike Wagenheim, CUNY investigation retaliatory, Jewish professors say, JNS, Feb 20, 2023.
- ↑ Kate Movement, Racism and Repression’: Anti-Israel Activists Hold Event At CUNY In Protest Of University’s Antisemitism Investigation, Daily Caller, March 9, 2023.
- ↑ Justin Brooke Murray, New York College Assigns Former Leader Of Pro-Hamas Group To Investigate Alleged Antisemitism, Daily Caller',
September 14, 2022.
The City University of New York (CUNY) is assigning a former leader of the Hamas-linked Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) to investigate an antisemitism and anti-Zionism complaint made internally by a Jewish professor.
CUNY assigned its chief diversity officer, Saly Abd Alla, the former civil rights director of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter, to investigate an email sent by Kingsborough Community College (KCC) professor Jeffrey Lax, accusing its president of anti-Zionist antisemitic discrimination. CAIR is listed by the U.S. Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in funding millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, and their leaders have previously called for the destruction of Israel.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) named CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014. - ↑ Jeffrey Lax, How CUNY became America’s most anti-Semitic university, NY Post, Apr 6, 2023.
The “cleansing” of Jewish students and lecturers from German … the portal uses the CAIR-endorsed Jerusalem Declaration…. Abd Alla was a director at CAIR Minnesota, which pushed the BDS movement under her watch.. CUNY’s most powerful leaders have had documented ties or allegiances to the Hamas-connected Council on American-Islamic Relations.Google Maps. Never mind that CAIR’s Minnesota chapter is so extreme that even CAIR national has distanced itself from it. In doubling down and commending CAIR’s work, the chancellor also falsely denied Abd Alla’s connection to the BDS movement.
Overseen by Abd Alla, the portal uses the CAIR-endorsed Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which the nonpartisan nonprofit education organization StandWithUs has blasted as “deeply harmful,” “intended to cause confusion” and an attempt to “further the spread of antisemitism.” - ↑ Isabel Keane, Commencement speaker slams CUNY Law for supporting ‘fascist’ NYPD, oppressive systems, Nypost, 05/29/2023.
A graduate speaking at the City University of New York’s law school commencement called for a “revolution” to challenge oppressive institutions in the US — name-checking the “fascist” NYPD, the military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the prison system.
Future lawyer Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a Queens native who was selected by the graduating 2023 class to speak during the May 12 ceremony, praised CUNY for supporting student activism — but said the school still managed to fail students by supporting the NYPD. - ↑ Jim Hoft, Ilhan Omar 2.0: CUNY Law School Graduation Speaker and Migrant from Yemen Lectures About “Oppressive Institutions” and “White Supremacy” in Speech, TGP, May 29, 2023.
- ↑ Claudia Aoraha, NYC Mayor Eric Adams slams CUNY law grad for ‘negativity and divisiveness’ after calling for attacks on ‘fascist’ police and military - as new video emerges of her calling for ‘Zionist professors’ to be banned from campus, Daily Mail, May 29, 2023
- ↑ Austin Browne, Bill proposes funding cuts after anti-Semitic CUNY Law graduation speech, CampusReform, June 6, 2023
- ↑ David Litman, Mehdi Hasan’s Deceitful Defense of an Antisemitic Screed, CAMERA, June 7, 2023.
No reasonable observer would ever accuse Mehdi Hasan of providing thoughtful, balanced, and insightful discussions on the newsworthy subjects of the day, especially when the subject has anything to do with Jews. On June 4th, that happened to be the antisemitic screed at the City University of New York School of Law’s commencement ceremony, in which the speaker, Fatima Mohammed, called on her audience to use their rage to “fight against…Zionism around the world” and railed against “investors.” The speech was widely criticized and condemned by Jewish groups, university officials, and political leaders. Once again upholding his reputation, the MSNBC host rode to Mohammed’s defense. The result was nine minutes of Hasan and his guests enthusiastically embracing willful blindness, legal nonsense, and material omissions.
Let’s start with the legal nonsense... - ↑ D. J. Pierre, CUNY Professors Fighting to Leave Faculty Union File Brief in Second Appeals Court, The Algemeiner June 7, 2023.
- ↑ Luke Tress,
Anti-Israel CUNY graduation speakers led 2022 rally linked to antisemitic assault, TOI, 19 Jun 2023.
Law school activists addressed crowd before participant beat Jewish counter-protester, are members of group that advocates for Israel’s destruction..
The ensuing assault, also caught on video, would leave Matt Greenman bloody and bruised after being knocked to the ground and repeatedly punched in the face in front of shocked bystanders, his flag ripped away in a beating for which at least one attacker, Saadah Masoud, has been imprisoned on federal hate crime charges.
Leading the march were two protesters studying law at the City University of New York’s law school, Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mohammed, members of an activist group connected to other antisemitic attacks in New York.
