NEW YORK - New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered the public City University of New York, or CUNY, to remove a job listing for a “Palestine studies” lecturer after pressure from pro-Israel groups.
“Governor Hochul has directed CUNY to immediately remove this job posting and conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure that anti-Semitic theories are not promoted in the classroom,” a spokesperson for the governor, a Democrat, told The New York Post.
“The Governor has continued to strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism and has made clear that hateful rhetoric of any kind has no place at CUNY or anywhere in New York State.” The job listing called for 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”.
