The Abandonment of the Jews, and of Education, at the City University of New York

In Friday’s podcast, Jonathan Silver and Marc Novikoff discussed the direct correlation between the amount of money students pay in tuition and the intensity of anti-Israel protests. But one exception might be the City University of New York (CUNY), a network of schools with low tuition and a large working-class student body that has seen some especially ugly moments. This was evident in the spring of 2023, when the CUNY Law School commencement speaker called on her fellow graduates to join “the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world,” and condemned the American legal system as irredeemably evil. And it was evident earlier this month, when a mob gathered outside a kosher restaurant to harass Jewish fellow students and bang on the windows.