The report also cited a civil rights complaint filed with the DOE in July - reported by The Post - that CUNY had become a “pervasively hostile environment for Jewish students.”ĬUNY is ‘pervasively hostile’ to Jewish students: complaintĬourt papers cited incidents at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, where a Jewish professor “found swastikas carved into the door and her keyboard drenched in urine” and another Jewish professor from Israel being asked how many people she had killed. In February 2022, Jewish students filed a complaint with the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights alleging “pervasive anti-Semitism” from both students and faculty - including professors spouting antisemitic tropes and being described as benefitting from “white privilege,” the report card said. The report noted civil rights complaints had been filed with the US DOE alleging anti-Semitism at City University of New York campuses. The CUNY Law School student and faculty councils also approved resolutions supporting the BDS movement.
The report claimed that the Brooklyn College administration “turns a blind eye to Jew-hatred.” Paul Martinka Nerdeen Kiswani, the former head of Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY Law School and Hunter College, was chosen as a CUNY Law School commencement speaker last spring despite being named in a US Department of Education complaint alleging anti-Semitism and threatening to set a black man on fire for wearing an Israeli Defense Force sweatshirt, the report card said.
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The group cited examples of higher academia allegedly coddling those it described as anti-semites under the guise of free speech. “Students feel the administration turns a blind eye to Jew-hatred,” the review for Brooklyn College said, adding: “Students DO NOT feel safe, saying they need to hide their Jewish identity as well as their support for Israel.”
The report prepared by StopAntisemitism graded 25 colleges after asking students whether it’s “safe to be a Jew” on campus.Ĭolumbia, NYU and Brooklyn College got an F.īrandeis University, Tulane and the University Pennsylvania earned top grades of A or A minus.Īt Columbia and NYU, the review said “students report a hostile and anti-Semitic environment when their identity or Zionist beliefs are expressed” - and that students groups approved resolutions supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish State of Israel. Howard Stern blasts Kanye West over anti-Semitic remarks: ‘He’s like Hitler’Ī watchdog group that monitors anti-Semitism issued a scathing report card that flunked Columbia University, NYU and CUNY’s Brooklyn College for failing to confront Jewish hatred on campus. Balenciaga takes stand on Kanye West after anti-Semitic rantīalenciaga cuts ties with Kanye West after anti-Semitic remarksĬhris Cuomo ‘insulted’ that Kanye West only agreed to do interview from car: source
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