New York’s once-prestigious City University continues its descent into hard-left madness. Can Gov. Kathy Hochul be bothered to put on the brakes?
The latest sign, of course, is Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s vile speech at the CUNY Law graduation.
Administrators initially cut the remarks from online video of the commencement, and it’s easy to see why.
The student speaker (chosen by fellow students) proclaimed the NYPD “fascist” and insisted “the law is a manifestation of white supremacy,” just one of many systems “created to feed an empire with a ravenous appetite for destruction and violence.”
Very much of a piece with last year’s speaker Nerdeen Kiswani, a virulent Jew-hater who once told a crowd “I hope that a pop-pop is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime.”
All fitting nicely in a system that hired machete-wielding Hunter College adjunct Shellyne Rodriguez.
And Michael Isaacson, a John Jay prof who tweeted about teaching “future dead cops.”
And Baruch College adjunct/literal Hezbollah operative Alexei Saab.
Indeed, the law school’s newish dean, Sudha Setty, is a woke academic who led the charge to make “racial justice coursework” a graduation requirement at her previous gig.
Ironically, Mohammed’s ideological allies complained about her speech being cut from the video, prompting CUNY Law to restore it — allowing for public exposure and Tuesday’s Post front page.
Which, by Tuesday afternoon, prompted the CUNY Board of Trustees to condemn the remarks as “hate speech,” indeed “a public expression of hate toward people and communities based on their religion, race or political affiliation.”
But the trustees, a crew of political insiders (ex-city Comptroller Bill Thompson is the current chair), show no sign of doing anything about the climate that produced the commencement hate speech.
So a new board (and change in administration across the system) is plainly in order.
New York City’s mayor picks five of the voting trustees; the governor, 10.
Mayor Eric Adams’ heart is on the side of the angels here. Witness his moving Memorial Day remarks: “This is a great country,” he cheered, “the only country on the globe with a dream attached to its name.”
Hochul, meanwhile, has spent much of her time as gov getting rolled by the hard left’s legislative division.
She needs to take a page from the Ron DeSantis playbook and bring in new blood deeply serious about getting CUNY back to its actual purpose, i.e. educating New Yorkers, not indoctrinating them.
Otherwise, a new generation of CUNY students will be lost to the madness.
