"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 brass hats at the City University of New York Law School to denounce the commencement speech of 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed.
In her address, Mohammed called the NYPD "fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them..." and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Paleostinians.
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.
Last year, student speaker Nordeen Kiswani used her commencement speech to complain about a "campaign of Zionist harassment by well-funded organizations with ties to the Israeli government and military on the basis of my Paleostinian identity and organizing, while the law school’s faculty council passed a resolution supporting the pro-Paleostinian boycott, sanctions and divestment movement against Israel in support of the students.