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New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, a Republican, called on New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, to take action against the antisemitism at the City University of New York (CUNY).
“Not only does the administration not care about discrimination against Orthodox or Zionist Jews, but they actively retaliate against them,” claimed Professor Jeffrey Lax, who is involved in an investigation against Kingsborough Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system.
Several City University of New York (CUNY) professors filed a lawsuit on January 12 to overturn a state law forcing them to be members of a professor’s union that passed an anti-Israel resolution passed in June.
Jeffrey Lax says CUNY has long fostered anti-Semitism on campus Getty Images Alex Nester • June 28, 2021 6:00 pm SHARE A Jewish professor in the City University of New York (CUNY) system resigned from a teachers' union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers after it passed a resolution condemning Israel and backing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Jeffrey Lax, professor and chair of Kingsborough Community College's business department, resigned from the Professional Staff Congress on June 17. A week earlier, the union passed a "Resolution in S...