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Right on, Mayor Adams: CUNY hate-speaker deserves condemnation
By Post Editorial Board
June 1, 2023 6:33pm Updated
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Bravo to Mayor Eric Adams for taking a lonely stand against the hatred
spewed by CUNY Law speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed against America, the
NYPD and Israel.
“If I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have
stood up and denounced them immediately,” the mayor thundered Wednesday
at a Gracie Mansion reception.
Adams continues to be among the sanest Dems in New York politics — and
one of the few top-level names with the cojones to face down the left’s Twitter brigades (Rep. Ritchie Torres is another).
The same can’t be said for Gov. Kathy Hochul. She’s displayed her trademark spinelessness on the issue:
“I condemn all forms of hate speech. It is divisive. It is hurtful. It
is cruel. And I’m calling on everyone across the state to join with us
in saying no more,” she babbled.
That was it. Could anything have been more insipid?
Yet her cowardice is shared by other prominent Democrats, like New York
City Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan beep Mark Levine, plus at
least five of CUNY’s own trustees.
Student-elected speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed during the CUNY Law School Commencement, May 12, 2023.
Eric Adams said that he would have “denounced” Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s comments.
CUNY School of Law
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Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for CUNY Law’s official antisemitism Remember: Mohammed claimed that “the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation
and around the world” and that the NYPD was “fascist.”
These are not widely held views, and criticizing them is not only
morally right but politically savvy.
Yet the prog silence shows how pols like Hochul and Lander feel far more answerable to the insane demands of the shoutiest minority than the
people who put them in office.
No wonder government fails to deliver what New Yorkers actually want,
time and time again: safe streets, good schools and a strong economy.
Pushback against woke madness is tanking stocks left and right. Voters
should realize they can do the same thing to politicians who’d rather
fight leftoid culture war battles than govern wisely.
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CUNY Law Dean applauds student’s ‘hate speech’ against Israel, NYPD, and military
By Carl Campanile
May 30, 2023 4:25pm Updated
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Mayor Adams condemns CUNY grad’s ‘hate speech’: ‘We cannot allow it to happen’
Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for CUNY Law’s official antisemitism
Gov. Hochul is AWOL as CUNY is in crisis
Majority of CUNY board remains silent as some trustees vow action over
grad’s ‘hate speech’
CUNY Law School’s dean came under fire Tuesday when video emerged of her clapping at a graduate’s incendiary May 12 commencement address that the public university’s trustees belatedly labeled “hate speech.”
“Everyone was applauding on the stage. The dean applauded,” Jeffey Lax,
a professor who is co-founder of the pro-Jewish Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, said of Dean Sudha Setty and others.
It took more than two weeks for top officials at the City University of
New York Law School to denounce the commencement speech of 2023 graduate
Fatima Mousa Mohammed.
In her address, Mohammed blasted the NYPD “fascist” and accused Israel
of indiscriminately murdering Palestinians.
Outraged critics — who have called for stripping the public institution
of its billions of dollars in annual taxpayer funding — complained that
this was the second year in a row that CUNY Law’s student speaker has
bashed Israel.
Last year, student speaker Nordeen Kiswani used her commencement speech
to complain about a “campaign of Zionist harassment by well-funded organizations with ties to the Israeli government and military on the
basis of my Palestinian identity and organizing.”
The law school’s faculty council also passed a resolution supporting the pro-Palestinian boycott, sanctions and divestment movement against
Israel in support of the students.
CUNY Law school 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed
CUNY Law school 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s commencement
speech is receiving backlash for “hate speech.”
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The outrage over CUNY Law’s commence activities last year is one of the reasons the City Council had held a hearing about Jewish students’
complaints of anti-Semitism at the university’s 25 campuses.
A CUNY insider said Mohammed submitted a draft of her speech to the law school’s higher-ups this year before graduation. Her talk was only
supposed to last 4 minutes — but the grad’s eventual hate-spewed tirade went on for 13 minutes.
“[Mohammed] deviated from the speech she submitted to the law school,” a CUNY official said.
Setty and the law school and CUNY’s central administration refused to disclose who received and reviewed Mohammed’s speech, nor did it provide
a copy of the draft she submitted.
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Outraged critics rip CUNY law grad’s ‘hate-filled’ commencement speech, demand billions in tax dollars be stripped
CUNY brass Tuesday finally slammed her speech as unacceptable “hate
speech” unfitting for a commencement — after much outcry.
“Free speech is precious, but often messy, and is vital to the
foundation of higher education,” said the statement released Tuesday by
CUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Thompson, Vice Chair Sandra Wilkin
and Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez.
“Hate speech, however, should not be confused with free speech and has
no place on our campuses or in our city, our state or our nation,” said
the CUNY executives.
“The remarks by a student-selected speaker at the CUNY Law School
graduation, unfortunately, fall into the category of hate speech as they
were a public expression of hate toward people and communities based on
their religion, race or political affiliation. The Board of Trustees of
the City University of New York condemns such hate speech.”
The statement does not say what if any action CUNY leadership might take
to address the problem of hate speech that has been permitted at its law
school commencement.
Mohammed declined to comment on her speech when reached by The Post at a relative’s home in Queens on Monday.
“I do not want to speak to anybody,” Mohammed said over the kin’s
speaker phone, refusing to give her own phone number and saying she did
not want to be contacted there again.
A Jewish leader said Fatima’s hateful graduation speech should never
have been allowed.
“Commencement speeches are supposed to be aspirational and
inspirational. They are not supposed to be hateful tirades. Save that
for another day,” said Joseph Postasnik, vice chairman of the New York
Board of Rabbis.
“CUNY has to rethink its commencement exercises. It only seems to be happening at the law school.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who appoints members to the CUNY governing board, was
asked about the controversy and said through a spokesman Tuesday that
she “has always been a steadfast supporter of Israel and condemns antisemitism in all forms.”
CUNY Law School Dean - Sudha Setty
Sudha Setty is the dean at CUNY’s Law School.
CUNY Law School
This year’s student commencement speech was the second controversy to
engulf CUNY in just days.
A CUNY-Hunter College arts professor was arrested on harassment and
menacing charges last week for threatening a Post reporter with a machete.
During her hotly controversial speech, Mohammed praised the faculty
council for previously supporting the anti-Israel BSD resolution.
Mohammed, a Yemeni native, accused the Jewish state of being “colonial settlers.
“Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on
worshippers, murdering the old, the young and even attacking funerals
and graveyards, as it encourages lynch mobs to target Palestinians homes
and businesses. As it imprisons its children, as it continues its
project of settler colonialism, expelling Palestinians from their homes. Silence is no longer acceptable,” she said to cheers.
Video posted to Twitter shows CUNY Law commencement speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed delivering her speech.
CUNY’s leadership has not said what if any action it might take over the
hate speech at this year’s law-school commencement.
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Even before the latest commencement controversy, the state Division of
Human Rights opened a bombshell probe into whether CUNY’s School of Law discriminated against Jews when its faculty council passed the
resolution last year supporting the BDS movement targeting Israel.
Lax, a Kingsborough Community College professor who filed the complaint
against the law school, said Mohammed’s hate-filled speech bolsters his
case that the school is biased against devout Jewish and Zionist students.
“BDS is actively being implemented at the law school,” Lax said.
He also said the speech called for “destruction” of the United States.
CUNY Law commencement speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed
The law school’s student government has made it clear that it is pro-Palestinian and stands strongly behind the BDS movement against
Israel, including through online postings.
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“The language she used was a call to insurrection and the end of capitalism,” added Lax, referring to Mohammed’s references to the NYPD
and the US military as “fascist.”
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Fatima Mousa Mohammed
Commencement speaker slams CUNY Law for supporting ‘fascist’ NYPD, oppressive systems
Jewish leaders said the atmosphere at the CUNY law school is unwelcoming
to devout and Zionist Jews who believe Israel is their ancestral homeland.
“Jewish students are not welcome at the CUNY Law school. That has to change,” Rabbi Potasnik said.
The rabbi said there is constant bashing of the Jewish state at CUNY Law
while other countries such as Iran and China that deny democratic rights
get a pass.
“It’s Israel all the time. That smacks anti-Semitism,” he said. “Free speech is a two-way street.”
The law school’s student government makes clear that it is
pro-Palestinian and stands strongly behind the BDS movement against Israel.
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One of the first items posted on its Instagram page is a statement that
touts its passage of the BDS resolution, which it claims is also
supported by its Jewish students.
“Through the resolution, CUNY’s vibrant community of anti-Zionist Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and Jewish students, faculty, staff and
allies demonstrated a historic commitment to stand against all forms of colonial dispossession and exploitation,” the student government
statement said.
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