CUNY Student Council Approves Resolution to Boycott Israel and Calls on University to Kick Out NYPD

CUNY Student Council Approves Resolution to Boycott Israel and Calls on University to Kick Out NYPD

CUNY is an absolute dumpster fire of radical leftism.

Campus Reform reports:

CUNY student council approves resolution boycotting Israel, calls on university to kick out NYPD

The Doctoral and Graduate Students Council (DGSC) at the City University of New York (CUNY) passed a resolution to stop DGSC funds from going to “products or services that support or benefit from” what the group termed “the US-backed Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

The resolution, titled “Five Demands for Palestine,” was passed on Oct. 18 by a 31-8 vote. The list of brands that the DGSC will now boycott includes Starbucks, Sabra hummus, McDonald’s, Papa John’s, several Israeli companies, and “[e]vents or publications that cooperate with or promote Israeli academic institutions.”

The “Five Demands” of the activists call for CUNY to divest from Israel, ban “all academic trips to Israel,” recognize “the right . . . of colonized peoples to resist their colonizers, including by armed means,” terminate the New York Police Department and Israeli Defense Forces presence on campus, and provide a “fully-funded, free CUNY” for students.

The resolution also condemned CUNY for spending more than $8 million in Fiscal Year 2020-2021 on companies that have ties with Israel, which the DGSC accuses of “occupation and genocide.”

The student council has received criticism for passing the anti-Israel resolution.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, former member of the CUNY board of trustees, said: “It’s an absolute violation. You can’t have Jewish students pay for fees used for prejudicial activity against them.”

He added: “Absolutely 100 percent it’s antisemitic.”

CUNY Professor David Seidemann told Campus Reform: “Withholding publicly funded resources from those with different political beliefs – as the council rule threatens – constitutes viewpoint discrimination, a violation of the First Amendment.”

He also said that the resolution violates “NYS Executive Order 158,” which “directs State entities to divest all public funds supporting the BDS campaign against Israel.” Seidemann asked: “Why hasn’t the state Commissioner listed the student council, in its capacity as a subsidiary of CUNY, as being an entity in violation of the prohibition against BDS activity? That would compel CUNY to act to stop funding the student council[?]”

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