Exclusive | Anti-Israel professor who allegedly helped organize vile CUNY protest must be probed, NYC pols demand

An Israel-hating CUNY professor allegedly helped organized a vile campus protest that resulted in $3 million in damages, a pair of City Councilmembers alleged.Councilmembers Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) and Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn) are calling for an investigations and, potentially, the professor’s firing.They claim they have “credible information” adjunct political science professor Corinna Mullin was among the ringleaders of the April encampment at the City College of New York’s Harlem campus.NYPD cops and campus police arrested roughly 170 anti-Israel demonstrators at CCNY April 30, including Mullin, according to reports.The demonstration led to the science building catching fire and other violent incidents. Vernikov and Yeger, who are both Jewish, sent CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez a scathing letter Friday regarding Mullin.“We demand an immediate investigation, and if substantiated, appropriate consequences,” the pols wrote. “Any students or faculty whose actions led to the chaos and violence on a taxpayer-funded college, which resulted in more than $3 million in damages, must be held accountable.” Mullin teaches at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Brooklyn College and received $37,500 total in taxpayer-funded salary last year, according to SeeThroughNY.

The radical academic has previously been linked to John Jay’s chapter of the Israel-hating group Students for Justice in Palestine and the “pro-terror organization” Within Our Lifetime, the pols wrote.During the demonstrations, protesters fired a flare gun, sparking a fire on the roof of a science building; clashed with public safety officers; and broke into an administrative building, where they smashed glass doors and vandalized offices, according to school officials. Protesters also threw rocks at campus police and pepper sprayed them amid the mayhem, with two CUNY cops sustaining injuries, a campus officer told The Post.The Manhattan District Attorney�...