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August 25, 2021

At the City University of New York, Hatred of Israel Threatens to Destroy the Faculty Union

Even in contemporary higher education, it’s possible for anti-Israel zealots to go too far.

In June, the Profession Staff Congress (PSC), which represents the faculty of New York City’s network of public colleges (known as CUNY) passed a resolution stating that it “cannot be silent” about the various imagined crimes of the Jewish state, which it accused of wantonly murdering Palestinians in Gaza and, moreover, of being evil from its inception. The resolution was passed by a substantial majority of the union’s delegate assembly. But, as K.C. Johnson describes, it triggered a surprising backlash:

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