Responding to the episode on Twitter, Anti-Defamation League New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman said, “In a time of rising #antisemitism, as an online lecture converted into an anti-Israel hate fest epitomizes the kind of bullying that makes Jewish students feel unsafe. Hunter College is part of the City University of New York, a public university.

“For professors who are the experts in this anti-oppression curriculum not to stand up or do anything or say anything to intervene was quite shocking,” one student told Fox News. ” What violence could have taken place if this happened in person Because it felt like a virtual mob.” No professor attempted to disrupt the protest, according to Jewish students present during the lecture.

The fear of antisemitism as the fear of ‘this could happen again’ is being used preemptively to oppress and kill others.” Participants also posted messages in the Zoom call’s comment section, including one that read, “The Holocaust has been used as a tool. Professor Simone Gamble reportedly joined the demonstration, changing her picture as the protesters read a statement for some 20 minutes, which proclaimed that “anti-Zionism is not equivalent to antisemitism.” Nomi M.A group of activists turned an online lecture at New York’s Hunter College into a pro-Palestinian protest, Fox News reported Thursday, reading a prepared statement that charged Israel with practicing apartheid.ĭuring a required “Practice Lab” on the history of oppression at the Silberman School of Social Work on May 20, several students changed their pictures to Palestinian flags and changed their account names to “Free Palestine: Decolonize.” Iris Idelson-Shein (Ben-Gurion), Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe: A Bird's Eye ViewĬo-sponsored with the Queens College Center for Jewish Studies Jefferson (University of Florida), The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt

Past events can be streamed on the Center's YouTube channel: Please save the dates for Spring talks sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.Īll events will take place remotely through Zoom and will be recorded.

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