CUNY Law Dean applauds student’s ‘hate speech’ against Israel, NYPD, and militaryBy Carl Campanile
May 30, 2023
CUNY Law School’s dean came under fire Tuesday when video emerged of her clapping at a graduate’s incendiary May 12 commencement address that the public university’s trustees belatedly labeled “hate speech.”
“Everyone was applauding on the stage. The dean applauded,” Jeffey Lax, a professor who is co-founder of the pro-Jewish Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, said of Dean Sudha Setty and others.
It took more than two weeks for top officials at the City University of New York Law School to denounce the commencement speech of 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed.
In her address, Mohammed blasted the NYPD “fascist” and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestinians.
Outraged critics — who have called for stripping the public institution of its billions of dollars in annual taxpayer funding — complained that this was the second year in a row that CUNY Law’s student speaker has bashed Israel.
* * *
A CUNY insider said Mohammed submitted a draft of her speech to the law school’s higher-ups this year before graduation. Her talk was only supposed to last 4 minutes — but the grad’s eventual hate-spewed tirade went on for 13 minutes.
“[Mohammed] deviated from the speech she submitted to the law school,” a CUNY official said.
Setty and the law school and CUNY’s central administration refused to disclose who received and reviewed Mohammed’s speech, nor did it provide a copy of the draft she submitted.
CUNY brass Tuesday finally slammed her speech as unacceptable “hate speech” unfitting for a commencement — after much outcry.
* * *
Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/cuny-slam-students-hate-speech-against-israel-nypd-military/
