Mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani joins other lefty pols in ripping CUNY for pulling antisemitic job posting

Socialist wannabe mayor Zohran Mamdani was among eight lefty state pols to rip CUNY’s chief Tuesday for pulling a job posting for a “Palestinian Studies” prof who’d allegedly be allowed to promote antisemitism.The controversial posting for the CUNY Hunter College position, first reported by The Post last month, said, “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.”Critics immediately blasted the alarming job description, saying it was for a post that would allow the peddling of antisemitism against the Jewish state of Israel and was akin to courses offered in the Nazi-era, which ascribed all the world’s crimes to the Jewish population.Gov.Kathy Hochul swiftly agreed and ordered CUNY to take it down, which it did.But Mamdani, a state assemblyman from Queens, co-signed a letter Tuesday by state Sen.

Jabari Brisport that accused CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez of caving to pressure from Hochul and stifling academic freedom and pro-Palestinian viewpoints regarding Israel and the war in Gaza.“Although we are well aware that this is an issue that has multiple perspectives, we will note that we have heard repeated complaints over the years that CUNY has engaged in a troubling pattern with respect to speech that supports Palestine,” said the protesting lawmakers, who are backed by the far-left Democratic Socialists of America.“There is right now a widespread perception that you have been acting with bias against those advocating for the human rights of Palestinians,” the letter-writers said of Rodriguez.The other DSA-backed lawmakers co-signing the letter were state Sen.Julia Salazar and state assembly members Claire Valdez, Emily Gallagher, Marcela Mitaynes, Phara Souffrant Forest and Sarahana Shrestha.“We see nothing ...