People Start Calling for the Defunding of CUNY Over Anti-American and Anti-Semitic Law School Graduation Speech
As Gateway Pundit recently reported, a speech at the graduation ceremony for the law school at the City University of New York was filled with hatred for America and Israel.
Colleges and universities have almost always been liberal, but in recent years they have gone off the rails to the radical left.
People have had enough of this garbage, and in the case of CUNY, people are starting to call for defunding.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
IRS Pressed to Revoke CUNY’s Tax-Exempt Status Following Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
A legal advocacy group is calling on the IRS to revoke the City University of New York’s (CUNY) tax-exempt status following an anti-Semitic commencement speech that drew widespread condemnation from city officials and Jewish advocacy groups.
The International Legal Forum and National Jewish Advocacy Center say that CUNY’s promotion of anti-Semitism and support for Israel boycotts violates federal regulations that bar tax-exempt organizations from promoting political ideologies.
“CUNY’s repeated engagement in activities that institutionally promote a specific political viewpoint against Israel, including hosting multiple speakers, attempting to remove Jewish educators from senior leadership, and unwavering support of the [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] movement, constitutes excessive lobbying and potentially jeopardizes its tax-exempt status,” the groups wrote in a letter sent Friday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Here’s more from the Jewish News Syndicate:
The answer to campus radicalism and antisemitism? Defunding
It took the City University of New York (CUNY) nearly three weeks to do it, but the public university’s chancellor and board of trustees eventually got around to condemning an antisemitic speech made at the CUNY Law School graduation ceremony on May 12.
The oration was delivered by graduating student Fatima Mousa Mohammed of Queens, N.Y., a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, the activist wing of the antisemitic BDS movement. In it, she uttered egregious lies about Israel and Zionists but anchored her attacks on the Jewish state in far-left talking points about the evils of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism and “white supremacy.” She railed against the police as well as the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation, which served as fundraisers for the Hamas terrorist group. She spoke of the mission of the future lawyers getting their degrees that day as
Source: The Gateway Pundit
