CUNY has been in the wars in recent times, for being a hotbed of antisemitism.
As the Algemeiner details:
The City University of New York is currently under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for allegedly neglecting to discipline a student, Nerdeen Kiswani, who threatened to set her classmate on fire for wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hoodie, and for failing to protect another Jewish student from harassment. CUNY is also the subject of a Title VI complaint, which was filed in July 2022 by the American Center for Law and Justice after accusations of antisemitism at CUNY campuses were aired during a New York City Council hearing held the previous month. It alleges that CUNY has intentionally ignored “a sustained pattern of antisemitism.”
Another investigation, launched in February 2022, is reviewing complaints that Jewish students enrolled in CUNY Brooklyn College’s Mental Health Counseling master’s program were browbeaten into denying their heritage and identifying as white. One student allegedly begrudged one of her Jewish classmates so much that she admitted in a WhatsApp group chat to fantasizing about strangling her, an anonymous student told The Algemeiner at the time.
In May, CUNY again came under a shroud of criticism when student Fatima Mohammed alleged that Jewish money influences the university’s Israel policy during a CUNY Law School commencement ceremony. Despite being widely condemned by Jewish groups and local and national lawmakers —including New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) — 40 CUNY Law faculty issued a statement supporting Mohammed’s remarks, describing them as “heartland First Amendment speech.”
In Sept. 2022, CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez acknowledged that “more needs to be done” to fight antisemitism at the university’s 25 campuses.
Rodriguez, you are DOING IT ALL WRONG!
The embattled City University of New York is facing another backlash as being hostile to Israel and condoning antisemitism for hiring controversial professor Marc Lamont Hill.
Hill was appointed a “presidential professor” for Urban Education at CUNY’s Graduate Center.
“It’s something I’ve always dreamed of,” Hill, 44, told the Philadelphia Inquirer of his jump from his alma mater of Temple University to CUNY and teaching graduate studies.
Well, that and a world without the Jewish state. Not to mention doggy style ‘Leila Khaled style.’
But not to worry. CUNY claims several Jews approved of the hiring, so all is ok.
CUNY on Wednesday defended its hiring of Hill as a decision driven by merit, adding that several Jews served on the hiring committee that selected him.
“Professor Hill, a widely respected expert in his field, was unanimously selected by the Urban Education hiring committee for a position that focuses on advancing conversation and research about the role of education in American society,” a spokesperson for the university told The Algemeiner. “The committee reviewed the entirety of his scholarship and public comments, which include a public letter of apology for remarks made half a decade ago and his strong, unequivocal condemnations of antisemitism and antisemitic violence.”
Clearly, CUNY have not bothered to do their due diligence. All they need do is search Israellycool here to discover that he has promoted antisemitism and antisemitic violence way more recently than “half a decade ago.”
