“We vehemently stand against the Zionist movement within CUNY that aims to criminalize and demonize Palestinian students and workers,” reads the statement.
A small group of students, faculty and alumni at the City University of New York (CUNY) plans to get the school’s Jewish population to “unlearn Zionism.”
CUNY, which was the subject of a recent New York City Council hearing on college campus antisemitism, is not a stranger to anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activity. Its law-school faculty endorsed a resolution to boycott Israel and anything tied to it, also inviting Nerdeen Kiswani, who has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and actions, as commencement speaker in May.
Now, a group calling itself NIONCUNY—currently consisting of 32 signatories, including seven students and four union delegates—issued a statement pledging to “create networks and programs within the CUNY Jewish population to question, critique and unlearn Zionism so they may form their own Jewish identity.”