{"id":1940981,"date":"2023-05-30T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-commencement-speaker-at-ny-funded-school-goes-on-anti-semitic-rant-against-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T00:41:31","slug":"watch-commencement-speaker-at-ny-funded-school-goes-on-anti-semitic-rant-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-commencement-speaker-at-ny-funded-school-goes-on-anti-semitic-rant-against-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"NY-funded school&#8217;s speaker goes on anti-Semitic rant against Israel. Watch video."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fwatch-commencement-speaker-at-ny-funded-school-goes-on-anti-semitic-rant-against-israel%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=1940981&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--><h2>Graduation Speaker at CUNY Law School Sparks Controversy with Anti-Israel Tirade<\/h2>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Israel continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-commencement-speaker-at-ny-funded-school-goes-on-anti-semitic-rant-against-israel\/\" title=\"NY-funded school's speaker goes on anti-Semitic rant against Israel. Watch video.\">indiscriminately rain bullets<\/a> and bombs on worshipers, murdering the old, the young, attacking the funerals and graveyards as it encourages lynch mobs,&#8221; graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed told the audience during the May 12 ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed called for a &#8220;revolution&#8221; against &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-ad-from-left-wing-activists-allowed-to-trend-on-twitter-inciting-violence-against-conservatives-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Attack Ad From Left-Wing Activists Allowed to Trend On Twitter Inciting Violence Against Conservatives\">white supremacy<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;indiscriminate&#8221; murder by the Israeli state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May we rejoice in the corners of our New York City bedroom apartments and dining tables, may it be fuel for the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world,&#8221; Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The speech delivered by a graduation speaker at the City University of New York Law School has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-commuting-his-sentence-ca-gov-newsom-reverses-parole-for-convicted-double-murderer\/\" title=\"After Commuting His Sentence, CA Gov. Newsom Reverses Parole For Convicted Double Murderer\">sparked controversy<\/a> after the speaker went on an anti-Israel tirade. The speech was met with calls for cutting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">taxpayer funding<\/a> to the school, which is mainly funded by New York State.<\/p>\n<h3>Calls for Funding to be Stripped from CUNY Law School<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin said, &#8220;Raging antisemitism has fully consumed the City University of New York. Until the administration is overhauled and all Jewish students and faculty are welcome again, taxpayer funding must be immediately halted.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Democratic state assemblyman from Brooklyn, Simcha Eichenstein, called the speech &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.) called the speaker &#8220;crazed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democrats are also joining in the condemnation. The remarks come after the Biden administration caved to anti-Israel activists by embracing a watered-down definition of anti-Semitism that permits holding the Jewish state to higher standards than other countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics are calling for state funding to be stripped from City University of New York Law School after a speaker at the graduation ceremony went on a tirade against Israel, accusing them of indiscriminately attacking worshipers, funerals, and graveyards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1940982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5977,4671,27942,13672,3735,5654,4440,4516],"class_list":["post-1940981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anti-semitic","tag-israel","tag-ny-funded","tag-rant","tag-schools","tag-speaker","tag-video","tag-watch"],"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\/1940981","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}