Adams says NYC has ‘normalized antisemitism’
is suing the union repping taxpayer-funded Legal Aid lawyers for allegedly retaliating against three members who objected to its antisemitic practices.
“Anti-Semitism in a union isn’t any less objectionable than anti-Semitism on a college campus, in a public school, or at a workplace,” said Ken Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, whose group Tuesday filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against ALAA, Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, and 28 individual union officers and members.
“Zionism is integral to Jewish identity, but plaintiffs — proud unionists who have dedicated their professional lives to serving poor and disadvantaged clients — didn’t need to be Zionists, or in one case, even Jewish, to understand that anti-Semitism is antithetical both to their obligations as lawyers and to the mission of a union responsible for representing the interests of all its members,” said Rory Lancman, senior Counsel at the Brandeis Center and a former Queens councilman.
Four ALAA members identified as defendants in the lawsuit filed union charges against the plaintiffs, putting in motion the disciplinary proceedings to oust them from the union, the suit said.
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