Imam at CUNY Interfaith Event Blames Jewish Participant for Gaza, Leads Walkout
“I came here to this event not knowing I would be sitting next to a Zionist and this is something I am not going to accept”
An interfaith event at City College of New York (CUNY) went off the rails this week, when an imam blamed a Jewish leader also in attendance for what’s happening in Gaza and then led a student walkout.
With all of the colleges and universities that are currently under investigation for antisemitism, you would think that other schools would take steps to prevent something like this from happening.
City College in NYC hosted an interfaith event and it went super great: pic.twitter.com/cd6Mjweajz
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 18, 2025
When you look back at our previous reportage, you’ll see that CUNY does not have a good record on this topic.
The New York Post reports:
‘Imam’ tells CUNY Muslim students to leave interfaith event because a ‘Zionist’ is present
So much for kumbaya.
A self-proclaimed imam speaking at a CUNY City College interfaith event went into a Jew-hating tirade, urging Muslim students to leave in protest after complaining that a “Zionist” was present.
The City University of New York said it is now investigating the shocking incident last week that targeted Ilya Bratman, an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College and the director of the Hillel Jewish campus organization.
“I came here to this event not knowing I would be sitting next to a Zionist and this is something I am not going to accept,” said the Islamic scholar Abdullah Mady, referring to Bratman, according to an audio recording obtained by The Post.
“My people are being killed right now in Gaza,” he said. “If you’re a Muslim, out of strength and dignity, I ask you to exit this room immediately.”
About 100 students in attendance took up the call and walked out, leaving about 20 Christian and Jewish students who remained in the room stunned, Bratman said.
The remaining students were escorted out with the assistance of campus security to keep them safe while those who walked out in protest gathered outside, he said.
The dumbfounded moderator, student chaplain Joshua Medina, apologized to the students for the ugly protest, saying it was supposed to be a “respectful” discussion.
The Jerusalem Post has more on the reaction:
Antisemitic walkout at CUNY interfaith event condemned
The [ADL] chapter’s director, Scott Richman, called the incident “a truly disgusting display of raw antisemitism not only by the imam but by the huge crowd of people there for an interfaith event who followed him out the door because a Jew was present.”
“We unequivocally condemn this gross display of antisemitism at City College of New York,” the Nexus Project, a progressive-leaning antisemitism watchdog group, wrote on social media.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted the walkout as “antisemitism, plain and simple,” adding, “No one should be singled out, targeted, or shamed because they are Jewish.” She urged the City University of New York, the public university system that includes the campus, “to act swiftly to ensure accountability and protect every student’s safety.”
Hochul’s Republican opponent in next year’s governor race, Rep. Elise Stefanik, called CUNY “a hotbed of antisemitism.”
Defund CUNY. https://t.co/6Sx6cB1dGa
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) November 19, 2025
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Islam is absolutely incompatible with the Western concept of civilization. People need to realize that and act accordingly.
Your first four words are correct.
My life experience and common sense tells me that when someone screams they want to kill me, I should take them seriously and act accordingly.
Ruaty Bill is 1000% correct and the sooner we realize this and kick them out of our country the better.
Reason No. 1,415 Islam is a cancer in the West.
It’s clear from the organizers’ comments that they really don’t comprehend what they are dealing with.
I think the US government should not be funding any college or university at all. Not my tax dollars
There are two types of Muslims:
The first will gleefully decapitate you to fulfill the explicit commands of his prophet.
The second will celebrate the deed of the first.
Islam is an evil political ideology masquerading as a religion that is utterly incompatible with our constitutional republic. If we expect it to endure another 250 years, it’s either them or us.
It’s a murderous cult.
There is a third category. But, technically speaking, they are not good Muslims. They might be “iberal” Muslims in the sense that is used for Christians. There aren’t very many.
The truly “radical” Muslim doesn’t want to kill the infidel and wage jihad to take over countries by any and all means. They also disobey Allah and the Prophet (PBUH …or else) and have relations with Jews and Christians… and those not “People of the Book”.
in some sporting events blmplo lovers wont compete against jews/israelis and the event organizers should ,,if they are not,,do something about it as in punishing the blmplo
compatible or not with the west doesnt matter anymore
the takeover is upon us and through the smaller towns right into nyc chi etc
its here
the decibel levels of the multi daily prayer call was just challenged and though the decibels were over the limit …the police wouldnt and the mayor wouldnt take action
What began as a handful of noise complaints over a mosque’s loudspeaker call to prayer has become a wider dispute over trust, transparency and whether Dearborn’s leadership is applying city rules evenly — or ignoring residents who say the volume is disrupting daily life.
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, speaking on the Not From Here podcast earlier this month, downplayed the rising number of complaints, calling the issue “not a problem” and describing the concerns as “a very, very few.”
https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/11/dearborn-mayor-mosque-noise-complaints-transparency-dispute/
not saying church bells have or havent also violated any noise laws
but this goes to the incompatibility issue of islams anti western agenda
Normally, church bells occur once or twice on Sunday mornings. Islamic calls to prayer occur five times a day, every day. Do the math.
Church bells ring several times every day.
People only tend to notice sporadically because they are usually rung for things happening inside the church.
There is no Christian equivalent of the adnan because there is no compulsion to prayer in Christianity as there is in Islam.
“Church bells ring several times every day.”
Nowhere I’ve ever lived, and I’m 69 years old. For the record: New York, Maine, Delaware, Illinois, Mississippi, Texas.
People shut up because they know retaliation to their complaints will go unanswered.
Good faith dialogue, discussion and even heated, vigorous debate should be welcomed not dismissed or rejected on the basis of someone else’s policy preferences, religious affiliation or personal attachments attempting to stifle debate as occurred here. Humanity’s history shows that very often when we stop talking things out then we end up fighting things out. IMO we’d all be better off with more commitment to good faith dialogue with those who disagree with us even when we find them repugnant and refraining from ad hominem attacks, denunciation or declarations that X person(s) is unworthy of being debated with. Refusing to offer ‘good’ speech to persuasively counter ‘bad’ speech doesn’t diminish the message of the ‘bad’ speech instead the refusal to engage comes across as undermining any counter argument b/c those who refuse to debate present themselves as lacking confidence in their own beliefs.
Dialoguing with someone who wants you enslaved or dead is not really a free speech proposition, though. And that’s where the complainer has embraced a suicidal ideology.
Well sure, if someone unequivocally says they want to enslave you or kill you the conversation is done. Likewise whenever someone starts using amped up rhetoric and especially ad hominem attacks labeling someone full of ‘ists, isms, phobes’ in an effort to effectively dehumanize and create the general perception that this person is an ‘other’ in order to make violence against them somehow ‘deserved or acceptable’, as some did/are doing with Charlie Kirk and Trump among others calling them nazis/fascists, that means the discussion phase with the individuals using those sort of invective that is also over.
BTW, has anyone seen video or heard audio of this event? While the described behavior is what most of us expect, it would be really helpful to demonstrate it to others. (And, it would prevent someone claiming we’re suffering from confirmation bias.)
If you’re doing ANY event with Muslims or Progressives or the government, you NEED TO BE MAKING YOUR OWN RECORDING. And keep an unedited copy.
agree except the victims doing these recordings live in fear and the authorities might also accuse them of “egging on” the extra sensitive blmplo violent radical pos!
“I’m shocked — simply shocked — to find non-Muslims at this interfaith event!”
The fact that 100 got up and left, leaving only 20 in the room, tells you this “interfaith event” was some kind of a setup where those 20 people weren’t on the distribution list for the memo.
What a joke an interfaith meeting is when muslims are involved, Muslims do not acknowledge any religion other than islam. To not understand their extreme ideology is to act as a total fool . Try reading their indoctrination manual which they label the koran, it is a manual that rivals a Nazi handbook on racial ideology
The trouble with Gaza . . .
. . . is that it has too many Gazans.
The so-called Palestinians are not wanted by ANY country on Earth for good reason.
So it begins. NYC is in for a hell of a ride. When Mamdani doesn’t get his way, the commies and the Muslims will take to the streets. Guaranteed. It won’t be pretty. Even if Mandan gets his way it won’t be pretty.
In other words Muslims and Tucker Carlson are on exactly the same page.
This issue means nothing without matching condemnation for the same behavior from our side.
An Imam with a congregation of dozens of people being an anti-Semite is nowhere near the influence of Tucker Carlson, let alone active pandering to Groypers by the current VP.
I vote for sticking with principle, throwing the “no enemies to the right” rhetoric into the garbage where it belongs, and the traditional despising of all Nazis, and we get to run stories like this without an extreme dose of hypocrisy because of not harboring Nick Fuentes.
But like it or not a Muslim with an audience of maybe a few dozen people will not distract from mainstreaming and fluffing an active Nazi with an audience of millions.
Loyal Americans may still be in the majority here, but seem hell bent on allowing our conquest by a hostile minority dedicated to our cultural or physical destruction. Denial followed by paralysis in the face of imminent aggression will prevail until those still capable of resistance take over, which hopefully will happen once the Islamists overreach, as the Japanese discovered 84 years ago. Until then, we wait for that moment of national clarity and keep our powder dry!
Sorry I know I sound like a hateful person but Islam is a religion of blind obedience to supposedly holy men who are often hateful, violent and power hungry. Don’t ask questions, don’t think for yourself, just do what the leader says because we are the superior beings. In my congregagtion the rabbi can barely open his mouth without 5 members arguing with him. Debate is part of the nature of my religion. If some dumb rabbi told all the jews to walk out of a room on interfaith dialogue you can bet that approximately 2 Jews would follow him while the rest of us would start yelling at him (and each other quite likely). I don’t understand a culture of lemmings where people seem to want to be told what to do all the time even if it means acting an exteremly embaressing and close minded way. I guess hate just feels that good?