{"id":1755942,"date":"2022-11-30T05:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755942"},"modified":"2022-11-30T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:03:42","slug":"jewish-professors-say-university-is-retaliating-against-them-for-fighting-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-professors-say-university-is-retaliating-against-them-for-fighting-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Professors Say University Is Retaliating Against Them for Fighting Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjewish-professors-say-university-is-retaliating-against-them-for-fighting-anti-semitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two Jewish professors at the City University of New York who have sounded the alarm about anti-Semitism on campus say their employer has launched a retaliatory investigation against them.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsborough Community College last week <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Form-HR-Investigation-Notice-StoneTurn-11202022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">informed<\/a> professors Jeffrey Lax and Michael Goldstein that they are under investigation after an anti-Israel professor made unspecified accusations they believe involve them. The pair say that the professor, Lili Shi, made the complaint because they objected to her appointment to a hiring committee for the school&#8217;s diversity office. Lax and Goldstein worry the investigation could threaten their employment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are literally going after us because we&#8217;re the ones who call out anti-Semitism at the college,&#8221; Goldstein told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, adding that Shi &#8220;obviously was upset&#8221; that he and Lax objected to her appointment.<\/p>\n<p>CUNY has not informed Lax or Goldstein about the substance of Shi&#8217;s complaint. But Lax and Goldstein believe it concerns them because they firmly opposed her appointment, and it was filed shortly after Lax filed a complaint against her. They were also the only other professors copied on the letter besides Shi.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent reprisal against the Jewish professors is the latest instance of anti-Semitism at CUNY. Last year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found evidence of discrimination against Jewish faculty, following an investigation launched by another of Lax&#8217;s complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The university in August tapped diversity officer and Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/this-professor-accused-cuny-of-anti-semitism-it-hired-an-anti-israel-official-to-investigate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critic<\/a> Saly Abd Alla to field Lax&#8217;s anti-Semitism complaints. Abd Alla formerly worked as a civil rights director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has defended anti-Israel terror groups including Hamas. Lax said the move was like assigning &#8220;David Duke to investigate discrimination against black people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university in August appointed Shi to a seven-member search committee tasked with hiring a new assistant dean for CUNY&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion office, which handles race-related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Lax in August filed a complaint against Shi&#8217;s appointment, which was tabled after he objected to it being handled by another anti-Israel university official. He said an outside investigative group took up the complaint only after he objected, while Shi&#8217;s complaint was immediately referred to an outside firm.<\/p>\n<p>Lax and Goldstein told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that Shi should not be overseeing the office, which handles complaints of anti-Semitism, given her opposition to the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Shi signed <a href=\"https:\/\/samidoun.net\/2021\/05\/may-28-nyc-cuny-must-divest-rally-and-press-conference-for-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a> following Hamas&#8217;s May 2021 attacks on Israel urging CUNY to adopt demands made by the Boycott,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Jewish professors at the City University of New York who have sounded the alarm about anti-Semitism on campus say their employer has launched a retaliatory investigation against them.<br \/>\nThe post Jewish Professors Say University Is Retaliating Against Them for Fighting Anti-Semitism appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":575889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}