By: Jared Evan
A newly filed complaint to the US Department of Education that alleges violations of the Civil Rights Act against The City University of NY., stated: CUNY has become an “pervasively hostile environment for Jewish students”
The complaint by the American Center for Law & Justice in Washington DC., sites dozens of antisemitic instances of harassment against Jewish students, professors, and supporters of Israel.
The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) is a politically conservative, Christian-based legal organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., and associated with Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“Some of the harassment on CUNY campuses has become so commonplace as to almost be normalized”, the complaint reads.
TJV News has reported extensively about the antisemitism and anti-Zionism permeating and seeping into all facets of the City University of New York and its various campuses.
The complaint referenced 2 major anti-Semitic incidents at Kingsborough Community College
TJV News’s Fern Sidman reported:
In March of 2019, the Jewish Voice reported that Professor Goldstein penned an article that was published in the New York Daily News on in February of that year that said: “I’ve worked at Kingsborough for 20 years, and within the City University of New York network for 30 years. The anti-Semitic vandalism and death threat perpetrated outside my office this past February was unlike anything I’ve experienced before. The reason for their attack? I’m Jewish, politically conservative and I believe in Zionism, the civil rights movement of the Jewish people.”
Goldstein also explained in his piece that appeared in the Daily News that in an attack in February 2018, the assailants defaced a photo of his father with anti-Semitic graffiti, and he later learned that the incident occurred a day after Kingsborough Professor Katia Perea, a member of the radical Progressive Faculty Caucus (PFC), an unsanctioned group of faculty members, apparently told an administrator who refused her request to fire him, “I guess I will have to handle this myself.”
Stuart Suss, a former interim president of Kingsborough was sued by another faculty member for civil rights violations after Suss was allegedly recorded stating “there are too many Jews” on the faculty at Kingsborough and discriminated out in the open against practicing Jewish professors.
TJV News reported: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC, says that Kingsborough Community College discriminated against Professor Jeffrey Lax because he is Jewish and supports Israel. According to the ruling, the school intentionally scheduled meetings on Shabbos to prevent Mr. Lax and other frum Jews from participating.
The NY Post pointed out several more anti-Semitic instances:
At Brooklyn College in 2016, students interrupted a Faculty Council meeting “to demand the removal of all Zionists from campus,” the Center said in its complaint, which noted students called the council’s chairman, who was wearing a yarmulke, a “Zionist pig.”
Among more recent incidents, a John Jay College student in May 2021 posted a picture of Adolf Hitler on Instagram with a message saying, “We need another Hitler today,” according to the document, which noted the college president did not publicly condemn the act.
The Jewish Voice reported extensively on the aftermath of the City Council Hearings on Anti-Semitism at CUNY, where students and faculty penned one of the most blatant anti-Semitic declarations in recent memory. This incident may indeed be the tipping point which resulted in the complaint by the American Center for Law & Justice in Washington DC
TJV News reported in Mid-July
Only a week after New York City Council hearings on the alarming escalation of visceral anti-Semitism on the City University of New York’s (CUNY) campuses, it has now been reported that the campaign to terrorize Jews and Israel supporters on campus has gained even more steam.
As reported in the Jewish Chronicle, an open letter, headlined “Not In Our Name”, reads like a manifesto, and appears to be a tool to pressure CUNY into supporting the BDS movement, as was indicated in the VIN report.
According to the VIN report, the latest CUNY-sponsored letter attacking Israel and Jews demands demands “resistance by any means necessary” for Palestinians and accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing.” It also charges that Israel is funding “Nazi militia groups” and claims that a mainstream definition of antisemitism “is a ploy to demonize anti-Zionist and Palestinian freedom of speech”.
