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Right on, Mayor Adams: CUNY hate-speaker deserves condemnation

By Post Editorial Board
June 1, 2023 6:33pm Updated
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Bravo to Mayor Eric Adams for taking a lonely stand against the hatred
spewed by CUNY Law speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed against America, the
NYPD and Israel.

“If I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have
stood up and denounced them immediately,” the mayor thundered Wednesday
at a Gracie Mansion reception.

Adams continues to be among the sanest Dems in New York politics — and
one of the few top-level names with the cojones to face down the left’s
Twitter brigades (Rep. Ritchie Torres is another).

The same can’t be said for Gov. Kathy Hochul. She’s displayed her
trademark spinelessness on the issue:

“I condemn all forms of hate speech. It is divisive. It is hurtful. It
is cruel. And I’m calling on everyone across the state to join with us
in saying no more,” she babbled.

That was it. Could anything have been more insipid?

Yet her cowardice is shared by other prominent Democrats, like New York
City Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan beep Mark Levine, plus at
least five of CUNY’s own trustees.

Student-elected speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed during the CUNY Law School
Commencement, May 12, 2023.
Eric Adams said that he would have “denounced” Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s
comments.
CUNY School of Law
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Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for CUNY Law’s official antisemitism
Remember: Mohammed claimed that “the law is a manifestation of white
supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation
and around the world” and that the NYPD was “fascist.”

These are not widely held views, and criticizing them is not only
morally right but politically savvy.

Yet the prog silence shows how pols like Hochul and Lander feel far more
answerable to the insane demands of the shoutiest minority than the
people who put them in office.

No wonder government fails to deliver what New Yorkers actually want,
time and time again: safe streets, good schools and a strong economy.

Pushback against woke madness is tanking stocks left and right. Voters
should realize they can do the same thing to politicians who’d rather
fight leftoid culture war battles than govern wisely.

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On 6/3/23 19:35, a425couple wrote:
> from
> https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/right-on-mayor-adams-cuny-hate-speaker-deserves-condemnation/
>
> Right on, Mayor Adams: CUNY hate-speaker deserves condemnation
>
> By Post Editorial Board
> June 1, 2023 6:33pm  Updated
> MORE FROM:
> POST EDITORIAL BOARD
>
> Bravo to Mayor Eric Adams for taking a lonely stand against the hatred
> spewed by CUNY Law speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed against America, the
> NYPD and Israel.
>
> “If I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have
> stood up and denounced them immediately,” the mayor thundered Wednesday
> at a Gracie Mansion reception.
>
> Adams continues to be among the sanest Dems in New York politics — and
> one of the few top-level names with the cojones to face down the left’s
> Twitter brigades (Rep. Ritchie Torres is another).
>
> The same can’t be said for Gov. Kathy Hochul. She’s displayed her
> trademark spinelessness on the issue:
>
> “I condemn all forms of hate speech. It is divisive. It is hurtful. It
> is cruel. And I’m calling on everyone across the state to join with us
> in saying no more,” she babbled.
>
> That was it. Could anything have been more insipid?
>
> Yet her cowardice is shared by other prominent Democrats, like New York
> City Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan beep Mark Levine, plus at
> least five of CUNY’s own trustees.
>
> Student-elected speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed during the CUNY Law School
> Commencement, May 12, 2023.
> Eric Adams said that he would have “denounced” Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s
> comments.
> CUNY School of Law
> SEE ALSO
>
> Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for CUNY Law’s official antisemitism
> Remember: Mohammed claimed that “the law is a manifestation of white
> supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation
> and around the world” and that the NYPD was “fascist.”
>
> These are not widely held views, and criticizing them is not only
> morally right but politically savvy.
>
> Yet the prog silence shows how pols like Hochul and Lander feel far more
> answerable to the insane demands of the shoutiest minority than the
> people who put them in office.
>
> No wonder government fails to deliver what New Yorkers actually want,
> time and time again: safe streets, good schools and a strong economy.
>
> Pushback against woke madness is tanking stocks left and right. Voters
> should realize they can do the same thing to politicians who’d rather
> fight leftoid culture war battles than govern wisely.
>
> FILED UNDER ANTI-SEMITISM  BRAD LANDER  CUNY  EDITORIAL  ERIC ADAMS
> ISRAEL  NEW YORK CITY  NYPD  6/1/23
> READ NEXT

CUNY Law Dean applauds student’s ‘hate speech’ against Israel, NYPD, and
military
By Carl Campanile
May 30, 2023 4:25pm Updated
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Majority of CUNY board remains silent as some trustees vow action over
grad’s ‘hate speech’
CUNY Law School’s dean came under fire Tuesday when video emerged of her
clapping at a graduate’s incendiary May 12 commencement address that the
public university’s trustees belatedly labeled “hate speech.”

“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 top officials at the City University of
New York Law School to denounce the commencement speech of 2023 graduate
Fatima Mousa Mohammed.

In her address, Mohammed blasted the NYPD “fascist” and accused Israel
of indiscriminately murdering Palestinians.

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 Palestinian identity and organizing.”

The law school’s faculty council also passed a resolution supporting the
pro-Palestinian boycott, sanctions and divestment movement against
Israel in support of the students.

CUNY Law school 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed
CUNY Law school 2023 graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s commencement
speech is receiving backlash for “hate speech.”
Twitter
The outrage over CUNY Law’s commence activities last year is one of the
reasons the City Council had held a hearing about Jewish students’
complaints of anti-Semitism at the university’s 25 campuses.

A CUNY insider said Mohammed submitted a draft of her speech to the law
school’s higher-ups this year before graduation. Her talk was only
supposed to last 4 minutes — but the grad’s eventual hate-spewed tirade
went on for 13 minutes.

“[Mohammed] deviated from the speech she submitted to the law school,” a
CUNY official said.

Setty and the law school and CUNY’s central administration refused to
disclose who received and reviewed Mohammed’s speech, nor did it provide
a copy of the draft she submitted.

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CUNY
Outraged critics rip CUNY law grad’s ‘hate-filled’ commencement speech,
demand billions in tax dollars be stripped
CUNY brass Tuesday finally slammed her speech as unacceptable “hate
speech” unfitting for a commencement — after much outcry.

“Free speech is precious, but often messy, and is vital to the
foundation of higher education,” said the statement released Tuesday by
CUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Thompson, Vice Chair Sandra Wilkin
and Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez.

“Hate speech, however, should not be confused with free speech and has
no place on our campuses or in our city, our state or our nation,” said
the CUNY executives.

“The remarks by a student-selected speaker at the CUNY Law School
graduation, unfortunately, fall into the category of hate speech as they
were a public expression of hate toward people and communities based on
their religion, race or political affiliation. The Board of Trustees of
the City University of New York condemns such hate speech.”

The statement does not say what if any action CUNY leadership might take
to address the problem of hate speech that has been permitted at its law
school commencement.

Mohammed declined to comment on her speech when reached by The Post at a
relative’s home in Queens on Monday.

“I do not want to speak to anybody,” Mohammed said over the kin’s
speaker phone, refusing to give her own phone number and saying she did
not want to be contacted there again.

A Jewish leader said Fatima’s hateful graduation speech should never
have been allowed.

“Commencement speeches are supposed to be aspirational and
inspirational. They are not supposed to be hateful tirades. Save that
for another day,” said Joseph Postasnik, vice chairman of the New York
Board of Rabbis.

“CUNY has to rethink its commencement exercises. It only seems to be
happening at the law school.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who appoints members to the CUNY governing board, was
asked about the controversy and said through a spokesman Tuesday that
she “has always been a steadfast supporter of Israel and condemns
antisemitism in all forms.”

CUNY Law School Dean - Sudha Setty
Sudha Setty is the dean at CUNY’s Law School.
CUNY Law School
This year’s student commencement speech was the second controversy to
engulf CUNY in just days.

A CUNY-Hunter College arts professor was arrested on harassment and
menacing charges last week for threatening a Post reporter with a machete.

During her hotly controversial speech, Mohammed praised the faculty
council for previously supporting the anti-Israel BSD resolution.

Mohammed, a Yemeni native, accused the Jewish state of being “colonial
settlers.

“Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on
worshippers, murdering the old, the young and even attacking funerals
and graveyards, as it encourages lynch mobs to target Palestinians homes
and businesses. As it imprisons its children, as it continues its
project of settler colonialism, expelling Palestinians from their homes.
Silence is no longer acceptable,” she said to cheers.

Video posted to Twitter shows CUNY Law commencement speaker Fatima Mousa
Mohammed delivering her speech.
CUNY’s leadership has not said what if any action it might take over the
hate speech at this year’s law-school commencement.
Twitter
Even before the latest commencement controversy, the state Division of
Human Rights opened a bombshell probe into whether CUNY’s School of Law
discriminated against Jews when its faculty council passed the
resolution last year supporting the BDS movement targeting Israel.

On 6/3/23 19:35, a425couple wrote:
> from
> https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/right-on-mayor-adams-cuny-hate-speaker-deserves-condemnation/
>
> Right on, Mayor Adams: CUNY hate-speaker deserves condemnation
>
> By Post Editorial Board
> June 1, 2023 6:33pm  Updated
> MORE FROM:
> POST EDITORIAL BOARD
>
> Bravo to Mayor Eric Adams for taking a lonely stand against the hatred
> spewed by CUNY Law speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed against America, the
> NYPD and Israel.
>
> “If I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have
> stood up and denounced them immediately,” the mayor thundered Wednesday
> at a Gracie Mansion reception.
>
> Adams continues to be among the sanest Dems in New York politics — and
> one of the few top-level names with the cojones to face down the left’s
> Twitter brigades (Rep. Ritchie Torres is another).
>
> The same can’t be said for Gov. Kathy Hochul. She’s displayed her
> trademark spinelessness on the issue:
>
> “I condemn all forms of hate speech. It is divisive. It is hurtful. It
> is cruel. And I’m calling on everyone across the state to join with us
> in saying no more,” she babbled.
>
> That was it. Could anything have been more insipid?
>
> Yet her cowardice is shared by other prominent Democrats, like New York
> City Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan beep Mark Levine, plus at
> least five of CUNY’s own trustees.
>
> Student-elected speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed during the CUNY Law School
> Commencement, May 12, 2023.
> Eric Adams said that he would have “denounced” Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s
> comments.
> CUNY School of Law
> SEE ALSO
>
> Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for CUNY Law’s official antisemitism
> Remember: Mohammed claimed that “the law is a manifestation of white
> supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation
> and around the world” and that the NYPD was “fascist.”
>
> These are not widely held views, and criticizing them is not only
> morally right but politically savvy.
>
> Yet the prog silence shows how pols like Hochul and Lander feel far more
> answerable to the insane demands of the shoutiest minority than the
> people who put them in office.
>
> No wonder government fails to deliver what New Yorkers actually want,
> time and time again: safe streets, good schools and a strong economy.
>
> Pushback against woke madness is tanking stocks left and right. Voters
> should realize they can do the same thing to politicians who’d rather
> fight leftoid culture war battles than govern wisely.
>
> FILED UNDER ANTI-SEMITISM  BRAD LANDER  CUNY  EDITORIAL  ERIC ADAMS
> ISRAEL  NEW YORK CITY  NYPD  6/1/23
> READ NEXT

First graduates of CUNY Law slam school’s descent into hotbed of hate
after commencement speech
By Carl Campanile
June 1, 2023 6:50pm Updated
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Mayor Adams condemns CUNY grad’s ‘hate speech’: ‘We cannot allow it to
happen’
Some of CUNY Law school’s inaugural graduating class of 1986 have
expressed their collective disgust and frustration that their alma mater
has descended into a hotbed of hate in a letter sent Thursday to its
dean and faculty.

“Our legacy has been disgraced and we are totally disgusted by a faculty
and administration that have nurtured this toxic, intolerant, and
antisemitic environment,” said the letter signed by 1986 alums Dan
Elias, Jill Stone, Anna Rumberg, Ann Nowak, Karen Hochberg Tommer, Paul
Goodman and Vincent Maher.

Elias, an attorney who drafted the letter, told The Post he was saddened
that CUNY Law has deviated greatly from its mission. “They’re pushing a
political agenda. I don’t know know how it prepares people for
practicing law,” he said.

He was referring to the inflammatory May 12 commencement address by
student Fatima Mousa Mohammed who alleged that “Israel continues to
indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers, murdering the
old, the young, attacking even funerals and graveyards… our silence is
no longer acceptable.”

CUNY School of Law
Some of CUNY Law school’s inaugural graduating class expressed their
collective disgust and frustration at their alma mater in a letter sent
Thursday to its dean and faculty.
CUNY School of Law
Members of CUNY Law school class of 1986 -
Members of CUNY Law school class of 1986.
CUNY Law School
The grads from 37 years ago also noted that the CUNY Law faculty council
approved a resolution supporting the pro-Palestinian boycott, divestment
and sanction movement against Israel, as did the student government.

“The fact that CUNY has become safe haven for BDS and utilized as a
regular forum for raging antisemites encouraging `lynch mobs’ and
lauding resistance to `Zionism around the world,’ is an unforgivable
betrayal of the values upon which this institution was founded,” the
letter said.

The letter say the “antisemitic hate” celebrated in Mohammed’s speech
champions the campaign against Zionism and advocates “violence against
Jews and the destruction of the only one Jewish State of Israel.”

CUNY law class 1986 letter
The class expressed their outrage at the recent commencement speech.
Dan Elias
“While we understand that change inevitably happens, we are saddened and
outraged that the very purpose and values of CUNY Law School have been
eradicated, and that the respect we had for one another no longer exists
at our alma mater,” the alumni said.

Mayor Eric Adams slammed Mohammed’s speech– and for CUNY Law officials
failing to denounce it in real time — during a Jewish heritage month
celebration at Gracie Mansion Wednesday night. Mohammed spoke after the
mayor gave his own speech, where some students loudly booed and turned
their back on him when he mentioned he was a former police officer.

“I will tell you, if I was on that stage, when those comments were made,
I would have stood up and denounced them immediately!” said Adams.
“Because we cannot allow it to happen.”

Fatima Mousa Mohammed
The grads noted that the CUNY Law faculty council approved a resolution
supporting the pro-Palestinan boycott, divestment and sanction movement
against Israel, as did the student government.
Twitter/@SAFECUNY
CUNY Law School Dean Sudha Setty, who was emailed the letter, had no
immediate comment.

She and others on the dais were seen applauding Mohammed following her
speech.

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The law school and the CUNY administration had no immediate comment.

Mohammed declined to comment on her speech when reached by The Post at a
relative’s home in Queens on Monday. “I do not want to speak to
anybody,” Mohammed said, refusing to give her own phone number and
saying she did not want to be contacted again.

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