“The Chancellor receives more than $750,000 a year in compensation funded by taxpayer money, but the damage he is causing to Jewish students and staff is far more costly and cannot be quantif…
following a commencement “hate speech” spewed at the public university’s embattled law school, while New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer is calling for a federal civil rights probe of antisemitism of CUNY.— which monitors Jew hatred on college campuses — said the second consecutive year of anti-Jewish bile at the law school was the last straw for the CUNY boss.
“The Chancellor receives more than $750,000 a year in compensation funded by taxpayer money, but the damage he is causing to Jewish students and staff is far more costly and cannot be quantified.” Meanwhile, Gottheimer called on the U.S. Education Department to open a civil rights probe of CUNY and its law school.“I am appalled by the persistent attacks against Jewish and pro-Israel students that have emanated from CUNY recently, including this speech, and I urge your office to investigate whether these incidents and CUNY’s administration’s response, or lack thereof, constitute a
The future lawyer slammed CUNY for continuing “to train and cooperate with the fascist NYPD, the military.” “My position is we work together with the chancellor and address the problem forthrightly,” said Joseph Potasnik, vice chairman of the New York Board of Rabbis. But 40 CUNY Law School professors co-signed a letter defending her address and said CUNY brass should apologize for calling it hate speech.
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