Shortly before Pesach, as we were all dealing with Sarachek and those dreaded midterms, Jewish students on other college campuses were dealing with Israeli Apartheid Week. For those of you not familiar with Israeli Apartheid Week because we live on a campus with an Israeli flag fluttering alongside the American,...
Is the Arab-Israeli conflict about Settler Colonialism and Apartheid?
Is the Arab-Israeli conflict about settler colonialism and apartheid? A few students who protested an event at the CUNY Graduate Center seem to think so. On Dec. 8, the students, affiliated with CUNY4Palestine and Not in Our Name CUNY, two student organizations in the City University of New York (CUNY)...
Why does CUNY’s Leadership Pretend that Jewish Students Don’t Face Discrimination on Campus?
Would you appoint an arsonist as fire chief? Well, That is precisely what City University of New York (CUNY) – the city’s publicly run university system with 243,000 students spread over 25 campuses – did when they hired a former employee of the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to lead...