CUNY Official Resigns After Endorsing Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories
“controversial statements include calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack a ‘pretext’ for Israel to invade Gaza”
If you’ve been following the anti-Israel madness on college campuses for the last two years, you know CUNY is a repeat offender.
Campus Reform reports:
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies official resigns after endorsing anti-Israel conspiracy theories
An official connected to the City University of New York (CUNY) has resigned his position after being accused of spreading anti-Semitism through statements he made online.
The official, Arthur Cheliotes, was previously the board chairman of CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies, as noted by The New York Post.
Cheliotes’ controversial statements include calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack a “pretext” for Israel to invade Gaza, and making comparisons between Adolf Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister.
On May 26, Cheliotes reposted a graphic about Hamas’ attack saying that Israel gave the group $200 million and pulled troops from the Gaza border shortly before the incursion, potentially insinuating that the Israeli government wanted the attack to happen.
The graphic also accuses the Israeli government of moving “bodies” to the Nova music festival and deleting border surveillance footage.
“The outrageous comments endorsed by Arthur Cheliotes, who leads an independent 501(c)3 organization that is not governed by the CUNY Administration, promote dangerous antisemitic conspiracies that have no place in CUNY or anywhere else,” CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez reportedly said in a statement on May 2. “He needs to step down immediately.”
Cheliotes ultimately resigned his position shortly after, according to The New York Post.
According to a biography online, Cheliotes is a member of the Democratic Party and is an elected labor leader of the New York City Government. He is also the president of a chapter of Communications Workers-America (CWA), a labor union based in New York City.
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“Cheliotes is a member of the Democratic Party and is an elected labor leader of the New York City Government. He is also the president of a chapter of Communications Workers-America (CWA)”
But of course he is,
Translation: a troublemaking communist. Notice he is NOT chairman of a department offering marketable skills.
What the hell is “an elected labor leader of the New York City Government?”
another day
another communistnazi lovn thugg expossed
He would either have to be a union president, college administrator, or a [fill in the blank] “studies” professor or some combination of the foregoing. All of the useless, hateful ones always are.