Jewish Advocacy Groups Still Demanding Sanctions Against CUNY Law School
“alleges CUNY law school is not properly confronting antisemitism on campus and should either lose accreditation or be forced to change”
CUNY is a hot mess. Is it so difficult to believe they have an anti-Semitism problem after this display?
The College Fix reports:
Jewish advocates continue call for sanctions against CUNY law school
The American Bar Association said it will consider complaints about allegations of antisemitism at a New York law school following criticism from a Jewish advocacy group.
It is the latest part of an ongoing battle between Jewish advocates, the City University of New York School of Law, and the ABA.
The group Students, Alumni, and Faculty for Equality on Campus has repeatedly pressed the ABA to investigate the City University of New York School of Law for seven months now. The group alleges CUNY law school is not properly confronting antisemitism on campus and should either lose accreditation or be forced to change.
Its complaints go back to at least 2022, however.
“Once a proud body that upheld the standards of legal education to the highest degree, the ABA has lost its way, capitulating to a mob mentality that does not concern itself with compliance with the law, legal or other ethical standards,” S.A.F.E. Campus wrote in an email to the ABA on December 17.
The original complaint, filed with the ABA Council on Legal Education, alleged a “now proven and university-admitted active implementation of that [Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions] policy.” The College Fix reviewed a copy of the complaint.
The complaint alleges the policy “blatantly discriminates against students, prospective students, faculty and employees, and prospective faculty and employees on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and nationality.”
After receiving unsatisfactory answers, S.A.F.E. Campus asked for an outside party to investigate the ABA.
“We believe that the Council (and the ABA) upholding illegal discriminatory practices is itself discriminatory behavior and that the Council violated ABA procedures to do so,” the group wrote in a Jan. 4 email reviewed by The Fix. “Only an impartial party can determine whether our allegations have merit. “
William Adams, a managing director with the ABA, told the group it would “ask the Council to reconsider its decision in light of your allegation that the disposition of your complaint was mishandled and to consider your new claim that Rule 45 is applicable.”
Rule 45 requires the Council on Legal Education to regularly review complaints received about law schools, according to the ABA’s guidelines.
“It will next meet in February,” Adams said in early January.
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What’s the ABA going to do? As Mel Belli was reported to have said, “Getting thrown out of the ABA is like getting thrown out of the Book of the Month club.”