The New York City Council had enough of the ‘extremely hostile campus environment’ that results in ‘blatant forms of anti-Semitism.’
Days after a council member pulled her discretionary funding for the City University of New York’s law school in response to its faculty endorsing a boycott of Israel, the NY City council announced a committee hearing next week to examine a pattern of anti-Semitism on CUNY campuses.
The Council’s Higher Education Committee, led by the council’s Jewish Caucus chair Eric Dinowitz, will hold an oversight hearing called “Examining Anti-Semitism on College Campuses” on June 8.
“The embracement and normalization of BDS by both CUNY students and faculty have fostered an extremely hostile campus environment that has resulted in the more blatant forms of anti-Semitism that are becoming all too common in our city,” said Dinowitz.