“We now have a policy of zero tolerance for the camps,” said Chancellor Felix Mata-Rhrigz. “We also hired more than 150 staff employees and contract with additional 250 security officers. Our approach showed the results.”
On July 15, Matos-Rhriguez was one of three university presidents, as well as heads of California University and Georgetovna to face the interrogation before the Committee of the House of Labor and Education on the alleged unobstructed crisis of anti-Semitism.
Congress of professional staff – staff and union of teachers – and many of the Great Kuni community say that the hearing of the Republicans of the House of Representatives really meant the silence of supporters of Palestinian human rights. They claim that the Matos-Rhrigates could not protect these members of the community, as well as the principles of free speech and a reliable, open conversation that are critical components of the thriving academic institution. “It was an outrageous revival of its responsibility as an academic and responsibility as a leader of the academic institution,” said Heba Gaeid, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at Hunter College.
Among the legislators at the hearings was Eliza Stefanik, a representative of the Republican from New York, whose interrogation of the presidents of the elite university in 2024 offered the resignation of the presidents Harvard and Colombia. The Committee suggested that the PSC has a “problem of anti -Semitism” for the adoption of resolutions in favor of the boycott of Israel in the past. One Cuny Administration official was allocated for working at the US Islamic Relation Council, as well as Ramzi Kassy, Professor Cuny and the founder of a legal assistance director founded at the Law School.
The organization helped to head the legal protection of Palestinian dissident Mahmoud Khalil. “This is the main-and-the-scapegoat that led to anti-Semitic camps in Colombia,” Stefanik said about Khalil. “Is it acceptable that Mahmoud Khalila’s legal defense fund is Cuny Clear? Is it acceptable under your hours?” Stefanik asked. In June, the federal judge agreed with the legal team Khalila that the imprisonment in the detention center in Louisiana was illegal and that the appearance of Trump administration for trying to deport it was unfair.
But Matos-Rhriguez did not defend the work of Kassema, the clear and the union of the faculty. “Anyone who violates our rules and our policy will be an investigation. We are investigating it. And if there is any disciplinary measures, we will take it,” said Matos-Rhriguez in response to Stefanic, who asked the Cassema. “The PSC does not stand for the New York University. We were understood in our commitment to BDS and against anti -Semitism.”
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PSC President James Davis immediately went back. “We do not accept the false prerequisite underlying today’s hearing that any campus activity in support of the Palestinian people is anti -Semitic, if not criminal,” he said. “All CUNY should be proud that teachers working at our university are part of a legal team that defends our constitutional rights and rights Mahmoud Khalila, who was abducted for his political speech.”
Prior to the hearing, members of Cuny teachers and staff at the Justice at Palestine who joined the teachers of the University of California and Georgetown to transfer a letter calling their institutional leaders to “break the template”, which others in previous hearings established “proving that it is impossible to stand in the framework Kharyngov “On the participants of the Committee”. But Matos-Rhriguez “completely unable to protect students from false charges of anti-Semitism,” the members said in a statement to Nation. “It was great and annoyed when he performed Trump’s administration.”
Matos-Rhriguez comments go on the heels One year of suspension Hadeqa Arzoo Malik, a student college student and a major camp organizer as well as obvious shooting with four teachers At the Brooklyn College on its propaganda propaganda.
As the administration drips in heels to suppress the pro-Palestinian activity, happened Change the sea in American public opinion In favor of Palestinians as a result of the genocide of Israel in Gaza. “The tides are turning,” said Arzo Malik Nation. “New York people support Palestine mostly. Especially on our (Cuny) campuses, because they are state schools of students and working class who understand that our struggles are interconnected.”
Not easy, if you do not have a connection with the basic political opinion, the inability of Matos-Rhizhies to defend Kuni from the House of Representatives reflected the leader of the distant field “even from the sphere of the regulated law,” Gouya said. “For example, Mahmoud Khalila’s case is a case where the proper process decided on this situation. Chancellor Matosuragis could not even contain the American legal system in his response.”
According to her, his comments on the student camps were similarly disturbing. “To say that we have a policy without belonging, it is very opposed to the right of students to civil disobedience. What does it mean in the academic space where we are responsible to our students to educate them, and instead we play this role to be the state’s hand?”
“Cuny’s Recent Firing of the Adjunct Professors and Suspension of Hadeqa Arzoo Malik Are Deeply Alarming and Part of a National, Escalating Pattern of Punishing Advocacy For Palaceinian Lves and Freedom. Not only violates the constitution but reflects anti-palestinian racism that violates anti-discrimination obligations under Federal Civil Rights Laws, ”Sadaf Hasan, a staff attorney at the legal group. Muslim fans told Nation. “As a state institution, Cuny is legally obliged to support the first amendment rather than suppress it.”
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