Pro-Israel students and faculty are steeling themselves for a fight when classes resume next month at the 25 campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY), in the aftermath of a resolution passed by its Professional Staff Congress (PSC) calling Israel “a settler colonial state.” The resolution has prompted the resignation of more than 50 professors from the union, with many more expected, and has been condemned by staff, students, politicians and Jewish organizations as antisemitic. “We are looking at and anticipating a very hostile environment at CUNY,” said Ilya Bratman, the executive director of Hillel at Baruch College in Manhattan.
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50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
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50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
“I will not be a part of an organization that supports those who wish to destroy us,” said Professor Yedidyah Langsam, chairman of Brooklyn’s College’s Computer and Information Science Department.
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The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union that approved the resolution, told the
New York Post that at least 50 educators have resigned or sent notice that they intend to do so.
“With the PSC-CUNY resolution, you have chosen to support a terrorist organization, Hamas, whose goal (‘From the River to the Sea’) is to destroy the State of Israel and kill all my relatives who live there,” said Professor Yedidyah Langsam, chairman of Brooklyn’s College’s Computer and Information Science Department and its faculty council, in his letter of resignation t
Wegen BDS verlassen 50 Professoren Gewerkschaft aus Protest
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