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Robin Garrell will leave her post at the end of September, seemingly connected to extensive controversy for her granting the final approval to hire Marc Lamont Hill.

In 2018, Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his job at CNN over comments he made in support of Palestinian liberation. Now, Israel supporters are angered over his hiring by CUNY.

CUNY Graduate Center President Robin Garrell, who came under fire this month for hiring controversial pro-Palestinian professor Marc Lamont Hill, will step down at the end of September.

The embattled City University of New York is facing another backlash as being hostile to Israel and condoning antisemitism for hiring controversial professor Marc Lamont Hill.

At a seven-hour hearing with no breaks, students at the City University of New York (CUNY) told harrowing tales of being subjected to antisemitic harassment by fellow students and faculty—in some cases opting to go virtual for their own safety—and of faculty resigning from a professional staff union because of its anti-Israel stance, and even being forced out of the university itself.