Exclusive | CUNYs taxpayer-funded Hunter College promotes hateful Palestine course targeting Jews, activists fume

Lefty taxpayer-funded Hunter College is promoting a hateful course that targets Israel over “settler colonialism, genocide,” “apartheid,” and “infrastructure devastation,” furious Jewish watchdog groups charge.The Upper East Side CUNY school recently laid out the disturbing course in a job posting for a professorship of “Palestinian Studies.”“We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality,” the posting says.“We are open to diverse theoretical and methodological approaches,” the seemingly increasingly radicalized top CUNY college tells applicants.Critics say the posting comes right out of the anti-Israel playbook that accuses Jews of all these atrocities.A former longtime trustee at the City University of New York said the posting peddles antisemitism by demonizing the Jewish state of Israel, and the source likened it to how the Nazis fomented hate against Jews.“What the hell are the trustees at CUNY doing allowing a course like this to be accredited?” fumed Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who served as a trustee for 15 years.“To make a Palestinian Studies’ course — completely about alleged Jewish crimes — is akin to courses offered in the Nazi era which ascribed all the world’s crimes to the Jews.This course takes antisemitism to another level at CUNY.“What if we had a course that said all terrorists are Muslim,” Wiesenfeld asked.

“Would that be OK?”The state is the principal funding source of funding for CUNY’s four-year schools such as Hunter, and the city chips in to help pay for its community colleges.Hochul’s executive budget plan recommends $2.25 billion in operating funds for CUNY’s 25 schools in the upcoming fiscal year and $1.8 billion in capital construction and maintenance funds over five year...