Hunter College, a taxpayer-funded institution, has attracted condemnation for advertising a professorship in Palestinian Studies that critics say promotes antisemitism. The job posting includes a call for scholarship focused on issues like settler colonialism and apartheid, which critics argue unfairly demonizes Israel. Prominent Jewish advocates have compared the rhetoric involved to Nazi-era propaganda against Jews. Former CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld voiced outrage, questioning the ethics behind sanctioning such a course amid accusations of antisemitism directed at it.
A former longtime trustee at the City University of New York said the posting peddles antisemitism by demonizing the Jewish state of Israel, likening it to Nazis in 1930s Germany.
Critics describe the job posting as a clear example of antisemitism, claiming it parallels how the Nazis historically fomented hatred against Jews.
'What the hell are the trustees at CUNY doing allowing a course like this to be accredited?...This course takes antisemitism to another level at CUNY.'
'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.'
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