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Edited by: Fern Sidman

It appears that the City University of New York just ain’t what it used to be, at least in terms of the academic staff and its adaptation of over the top far-left, woke policies that serve to alienate segments of the student body.

Here in its entirety is the vitriolic, evil, antisemitic @CUNYLaw commencement address from Jew hater Fatima Mohammed. Unimaginably, it is even worse than last year’s hate spewed by Nerdeen Kiswani. No wonder CUNY Law, under state investigation, tried to hide this video. pic.twitter.com/nKCe1Kx2sc

— SAFE CUNY (@SAFECUNY) May 28, 2023

PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Shellyne Rodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at Hunter College. pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK

— Students for Life of America (@StudentsforLife) May 17, 2023

For years now, CUNY has had its fair share of troubles but what happened last Tuesday really takes the cake. The New York Post reported that former Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodriguez was arrested  after holding a machete to a Post reporter’s neck at her Bronx home. Police said that she was arrested on charges of menacing and harassment, according to a report on the abc7ny.com web site.

This is just the latest example of questionable hiring practices by the taxpayer-funded public university system, professors and critics told The Post.

The confrontation on Tuesday came after the newspaper published a story about an earlier episode in which Rodriguez had cursed at anti-abortion activists at Hunter College, where Rodriguez, 45, was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, according to an Associated Press report.

A widely circulated video of the May 2nd Hunter College incident shows Rodriguez cursing at the anti-abortion activists and accusing them of “triggering” her students, the AP reported. In the video, Rodriguez asks, “What are you going to do, like anti-trans next?” and sweeps some of the anti-abortion pamphlets off the literature table.

The Post ran a story about the incident Monday and sent a reporter and a photographer to Rodriguez’s Bronx apartment on Tuesday, as was reported by the AP.

Video of Tuesday’s encounter shows Rodriguez holding what appears to be a machete to the reporter’s neck and telling him to “get the —— away from my door.”

The AP also reported that the Post said Rodriguez had earlier shouted from behind her closed door that she would “chop you up with this machete!”

The newspaper said its reporter and photographer left, but Rodriguez followed them and kicked the reporter in the shins, according to the AP report.

Hunter College immediately fired Rodriguez, who surrendered to police on Thursday morning. Rodriguez was also fired from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) following the incident, according to an abc7ny.com web site report. ABC 7 also reported that with a smirk on her face and supporters by her side, the artist and self-proclaimed activist left the 43rd Precinct in handcuffs. Her next stop now is the courthouse.

“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez, and has taken immediate action,” spokesperson Vince DiMiceli said, as was reported by the AP. “Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”

Rodriguez was arrested Thursday morning after turning herself in to a Bronx police station, the AP reported. Information on an attorney who could speak for her was not available.

Rodriguez has not responded to phone calls or text messages from The Associated Press, but she told the publication ARTNews that Hunter had “capitulated” to “racists, white nationalists, and misogynists” by firing her.

Rodriguez identifies herself on her website as an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer who uses text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture, the AP reported.

The unhinged behavior of the self-described “Black Marxist” left many wondering how and why she had been working at the Manhattan college shaping young minds since 2017, the Post reported.

The concerns over lax vetting of academics — particularly part-time, non-tenured adjunct profs like Rodriguez — have dogged CUNY’s 25 campuses for years. The Post reported that in just the last 13 years, the 243,000 students, $4.3 billion system has turned out to have hired a convicted terrorist, a Russian spy, and more than one drug-fueled sexual deviant.

One Hunter College professor told The Post this week that Rodriguez is “not alone. We’ve got plenty of nuts here. A professor from Brooklyn College wondered to the Post: “In a random survey, would subway riders or CUNY adjuncts be more heavily armed?”

Former and current CUNY department heads confessed that adjunct professors — who are paid $6,750 a semester for a 3-hour course — are often hired in the “spur of the moment” and by word of mouth, according to the Post report.

One department head at Kingsborough Community College, who recently interviewed and hired an adjunct professor by email told the Post that, “Literally the decision to hire an adjunct is made by one person. That’s the department chair, and we have some very crazy department chairs.”

The Post also reported that one CUNY adjunct who has been teaching for 10 years said she never filled out an application. Full-time professors, meanwhile, are screened by entire search committees.

The Post asked whether CUNY runs criminal background checks and was told by a spokesperson that, “CUNY follows a thorough process when hiring its employees at all levels and complies with all federal, city and state laws regarding hiring practices,” adding that some part-timers are required to undergo a criminal history check.

Among the rogues gallery of adjuncts that CUNY has hired over the years include Alexei Saab, a former Baruch College adjunct lecturer who taught IT graduate courses from 2016 until July 2019, when he was arrested and charged with helping the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah plot future attacks on New York City landmarks, as was reported by the Post. Saab was hired by CUNY despite being with the terror group since 1996.

Former Hunter College star psychology professor and sex and drug researcher Jeffrey Parsons stepped down in 2019 after a school probe substantiated complaints he used and supplied cocaine at university-sponsored events and violated CUNY’s sexual misconduct policy, the Post reported.

The Post also reported that four John Jay College of Criminal Justice professors — Full profs Barry Spunt, Ric Curtis, and Anthony Marcus, and adjunct Leonardo Dominguez — were accused in May 2018 by two former students, Naomi Haber and Claudia Cojocaru, of sexually assaulting the women and “pimping out students” to colleagues.

Hany Fam, a LaGuardia Community College human-anatomy lecturer, and adjunct at York College, offered one of his undergraduate students at LaGuardia good grades in exchange for sex in 2017, according to a Brooklyn federal lawsuit, the Post reported. LaGuardia fired Fam in January 2018.

Lehman College chemistry adjunct Hasan Zumrut, 28, was busted by police in 2015 for allegedly groping the backsides of several women, including one 18-year-old, in Times Square, as was reported by the Post.

The Post also reported that Eric Linsker, a former adjunct English professor at Baruch College and Queens College, was arrested in December 2014 after he allegedly tried to throw a metal trash can at cops during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Mamdouh Abdel-Sayed, a tenured biology lecturer at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, held unauthorized courses on important medical procedures on campus and charged students up to $1,000 for bogus course completion certificates, the Post reported. He held the classes from 2013 until 2017 when he was arrested and placed on administrative leave. He pled guilty to wire fraud in Manhattan federal court in 2018 and was sentenced to six months in jail.

Michael Isaacson, a former adjunct economics professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where many cops are educated, in August 2017 tweeted that it was “a privilege to teach future dead cops,” as was reported by the Post.

If this were not enough to cast doubts on CUNY as a legitimate university network, it was reported on Sunday by the Vois Es Nais web site that CUNY’s Law School has finally released a video of a commencement address in which vicious lies were told about Israel, after the school buried the shocking footage for two weeks.

VIN reported that the commencement ceremony on May 12 featured anti-Israel activist Fatima Mohammed as keynote speaker. The commencement speaker is elected by the student body.

Mohammad repeatedly attacked Israel with heinous lies, propaganda and talking points, linking it to white supremacy, oppression, colonialism and violence, according to the VIN report.

“This is the law school that passed and endorsed BDS on a student and faculty level, recognizing that absent a critical imperialism settler colonialism lens, our work and the school’s mission statement is void of value as Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers, murdering the old, the young, attacking the funerals and graveyards as it encourages lynch mobs,” she said, according to the VIN report.

“We are the student body and faculty that fought back when the investor-focused administration attempted to cross the BDS picket line, saying loud and clear that Palestine can no longer be the exception to our pursuit of justice, that our morality will not be purchased by investors,” she said.

VIN reported that Mohammad also said that CUNY “continues to train IDF soldiers” to carry out “violence globally,” blaming the school system for being “committed to its donors, not to its students.”

She repeatedly linked racism against Black Americans to Israel, and said Senator Chuck Schumer had “dignified” the killing of Jordan Neely.

“May we rejoice in the corners of our New York City bedroom apartments and dining tables, may it be fuel for the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world,” she said in closing, as was reported by VIN.

Mohammed is a member of CUNY Law’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

Her words were greeted with thunderous applause. The school, which has a long history of anti-Semitism, had hidden the video after coming under criticism for the ceremony, as was reported by VIN.