Over 80 (and Counting) CUNY Professors Endorse Hamas Terrorism Without Reservation

By now we all know that academia is utterly compromised, filled with anti-Western propagandists who see their role as being the vanguard of the proletariat.

Still, even I am shocked at how brazen these professors from the City University of New York, a once-great institution, are in their open support not just for Hamas, but for their acts of terrorism.

The events of October 7th weren’t terrorist acts, but a “military operation” that just happened to include rape, indiscriminate murder of civilians, and the desecration of bodies.

You know, like any military operation, right?

And there is also no equivalence between the October 7 military operation by Hamas and the subsequent military attack by the Israeli state, and certainly no equivalence to the systemic and the violence of Israeli settler colonialism. Israeli state violence has defined Palestinian life in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip since 1948. The dispossession of Palestinian land by ever-expanding settlements, theconstruction of Israeli educational institutions on settlement land, the routine incarcerationandkilling of Palestinian protestors, the eviction of Palestinians and destruction of their homes, and the gunning down of Palestinian and Palestinian-American journalistsare but a few examples. The Gaza Strip, described by Human Rights Watch as the world’s largest open-air prison, has been under Israeli blockade since 2007. Everyday life for the over 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza, 55% of whom are children and more than 70% of whom are refugees, is crippled by restrictions on access to food, water, medical aid, electricity, and basic life necessities. Israel’s attacks on Gaza in 2008-09, 2014, 2021, and 2022 have resulted in the killing of almost 4,000 Palestinians.
Over the past few days, the situation has worsened considerably. Open calls for the outright elimination of Palestinians are echoing in the United States and abroad. Israel continues its indiscriminate bombing of civilian spaces—homes, schools, universities, hospitals, ambulances—and has cut off the supply of food, water, fuel, and medicine. In just the past week, over 3,000 Palestinians, including more than 1,000 children, have been killed in Israeli air raids. This collective punishment of civilians, whom the Israeli government has long dehumanized and now describes as “human animals,” is illegal under international law. Now, in preparation for a ground invasion of Gaza, more than half of its residents have been ordered to evacuate. More than 600,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes at least once since October 7, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Many are calling this forced displacement a second “Nakba” that echoes 1948.

Now I don’t hesitate to agree with one statement here–that there is no equivalence between Israel’s response to Hamas’ attacks and the attacks themselves.

But the CUNY professors mean the opposite of what you and I would say: they see the Hamas attacks as a justified military operation to strike out at oppressive Israelis. They are openly endorsing the terrorist attacks and declaring them morally just, while Israel’s operation to root out Hamas is a violation of international law.

Uh, yeah, no both in fact and in moral judgment. No international law endorses rape, intentional targeting of civilians, or the murder and beheading of babies.

Only academics and psychopaths do.

The entire narrative of Israel as an oppressive apartheid state is bunk, as is the myth of an Israeli occupation of Gaza. Gaza is ruled by Hamas and has been for years, without Israeli troops. It has suffered from a partial embargo by Israel and Egypt–yes, Egypt embargoes Gaza as well–in order to limit the weapons that Hamas can get because it is in a unilateral war with Israel. It is a terrorist state.

Israel, on the other hand, does not exclude Arabs from its land or its government. Arabs not only live freely in Israel, they are full citizens. The number of Jews living under Palestinian rule is zero, and they certainly have no say in its governing. It is the Palestinian Authority that is the apartheid government, not Israel.

None of this matters, of course, to the academics coming out in support of Hamas and its antisemitic terror campaign. They have chosen sides, attacking Israel as the terrorist aggressors and Hamas as the righteous freedom fighters for international law.

Don’t forget for a moment that you, I, and the taxpayers of New York in this case are paying these savages’ salaries. Higher education is mostly funded by the government through grants, student loans, and direct subsidies to the institutions.

That should stop, right now.

We demand that the Chancellor, campus presidents, and all those in leadership positions end the repression and intimidation of Palestine solidarity activists and fulfill our responsibility to equally protect the rights of all members of CUNY. Signed, (87 women, 61 men)

Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Grad CTR
Alan A. Aja, Professor & Chair, Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College
Alex Wolf, Professor of Biological Sciences, Bronx Com Col
Alhaji Conteh, Doctoral Lecturer, Hunter College
Amanda Long, Graduate Lecturer, Queens College
Alycia Sellie, Associate Professor, Graduate Center Library
Ana Djordjevic, Adjunct Lecturer of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College
Ángeles Donoso Macaya, Professor of Latin American, Latino and Iberian Cultures, The CUNY Graduate Center and BMCC, CUNY
Anna Stetsenko, Professor, Psychology and Urban Education, GC CUNY
Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English & Middle Eastern Studies, Kingsborough Community College & CUNY Graduate Center
Anthony O’Brien, Dept. Of English, Queens College (ret.).
Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Associate Professor, Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian, Latino Cultures CUNY Graduate Center
Asima Chaudhary, Assistant Professor of Law, CUNY Law School
Atasi Das, Assistant Professor of Childhood Education, Lehman College
Babe Howell, Professor, CUNY School of Law
Beena Ahmad, Assistant Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Beth Ferholt, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Brooklyn College
Bilge Yesil, Associate Professor of Media Culture & Middle Eastern Studies, College of Staten Island &Graduate Center
Brett Stoudt, Associate Professor of Psychology, Urban Education, & Social Welfare, CUNY Graduate Center
Bruno Gulli, Professor of Philosophy, Kingsborough ComCol
Carol, Adj Asst. Prof, Bronx Community College
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College
Caroline K. Hong, Associate Professor of English, Queens College
Chaumtoli Huq, Asociate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Charisa Smith, Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Christa Salamandra, Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
Christopher Santiago, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Staten Island
Christopher Stone, Associate Professor of Arabic, Hunter College and the MA Program in Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center
Cinthya Santos Briones, Adjunct, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Claire Sternberg, Staff, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Colette Daiute, Professor, Psychology, Educational Psychology, Urban Education, Graduate Center, CUNY
Craig Bernardini, Professor, Hostos Community College
Crystal Schloss-Allen, Admin Exec. Associate, Brooklyn Coll
Darializa Avila Chevalier, Writing Fellow, CUNY School of Law
Dana Davis, Professor, Urban Studies, Queens College
Deeadra Brown, Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College
Derek Ludovici, Adjunct in Anthropology, Brooklyn College
Diane Riskedahl, Distinguished Lecturer, CUNY Graduate Center
Dominic Wetzel, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kingsborough Community College
Dorien Ediger-Seto, Adjunct Professor, CUNY School of Law
Douglas Medina, Instructor, Guttman Community College
Dušana Podlucká, Professor of Psychology, LaGuardia Com Coll
Eduardo Vianna, Professor of Psychology, LaGuardia and Graduate Center and Urban Education, Graduate Center
Ellen Dichner, Distinguished Lecturer of Labor Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Elizabeth Oram, Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College School of Nursing, Retired
Erik Freas, Associate Professor of History, BMCC
Esther Llamas, Higher Education Assistant, Medgar Evers Coll
Evan Smith, Lecturer, Baruch College
Filip Stabrowski, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, LaGuardia Community College & Graduate Center
Francisca Suarez-Coalla, Professor, Borough of Manhattan CC
Frank Deale, Professor of Law, CUNY Law School
Gary Wilder, Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gaurav Jashnani, IRADAC Postdoctoral Fellow, CUNY Grad CTR
Giacomo Bianchino, Adjunct Lecturer in English, Hunter Coll Handy, Archivist, Queens College and CUNY Central
Helene Remiszewska, Assist Prof of English, Lehman College
Hosu Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Staten Island, and Critical Social Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Ian Olasov, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center
Ibrahim Bechrouri, Adjunct Assist Professor, John Jay College
Irene Siegel, Adjunct Assist Prof of Arabic, Hunter College
Irene Sosa, Professor, Department of TV,Radio and Emerging Media, Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College
Jackie DiSalvo, Retiree Associate Professor, Baruch College
Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center
Jaime Weida, Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan CC ge
James Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Jane Guskin, Adjunct Lecturer Urban Studies, Queens College
Jeanne Theoharis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College
Jeannette Graulau, Associate Professor, Lehman College
Jeena Shah, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Jen Gaboury, Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies. Hunter Coll
Jennifer Queenan, Adjunct Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Jeremy Kane, Lecturer, Queens College
Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY and Professor of ciology, Critical Social Psychology, & Africana Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jillian Schwedler, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
Jocelyn Wills, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College
John P Pittman, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice’
John Whitlow, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Jonathan Buchsbaum, Professor of Media Studies (Emeritus), Queens College, CUNY
Jonathan H. Shannon, Professor, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Jonathan Larson, European Languages and Literatures Faculty, Queens College
José del Valle, Pofessor, Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, Linguistics
Juline Koken, Professor of Health Sciences, LaGuardia Community College
Karen Miller, Professor of History, LaGuardia Community College & Graduate Center
Karen Steele, Retired Administrator, Queensborough Community College
Karl Steel, Professor, Brooklyn College
Katie Gentile, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, John Jay College and Graduate Center
Lark Omura, Adjunct Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Laura Tanenbaum, Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College
Leila Walker, Librarian, Queens College
Lindsay Parme, Adjunct Lecturer of Anthropology, Brooklyn College
Lynn Horridge, CUNY GC alum; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn College (recent, not current)
Maddy Fox, Associate Professor, Sociology, Brooklyn College
Maram Hallak, Associate Professor of Psychology, BMCC/CUNY
Marc Kagan, Non-Teaching Adjunct, School of Labor and Urban Studies
Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center
Marcia Newfield, Adjunct lecturer, BMCC ret.PSC Adjunct Advocate
María Elena Torre, CUNY Graduate Center
Marva Lilly, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Retired
Matthew Lau, Associate Professor, Queensborough Community College
Matthew Martin, Writing Tutor, Guttman Community College
Melissa Castillo Planas, Associate Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center & Lehman College
Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Urban Education, UNY Graduate Center
Miriam Ticktin, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Mobina Hashmi, Assistant Professor of Television, Radio, and Emerging Media, Brooklyn College
Muaad Alody, Assistant Director, Master’s in Translational Medicine (MTM), City College
Mudassar Toppa, Staff Attorney, CLEAR Project, CUNY School of Law
Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Presidential Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
Nantina Vgontzas, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Naomi Braine, Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College
Naomi Schiller, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Naz Ahmad, Adjunct, CUNY School of Law
Neelima Anwara, IT Assistant, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Nermeen Arastu, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Nicolás Montano, Adjunct, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Ozlem Goner, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Staten Island, and Middle Eastern tudies, Graduate Center
Rebecca Lurie, Adjunct Lecturer, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Rebecca L. Salois, Lecturer, Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College
Rebecca Smart, Adjunct Lecturer, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Rhea Rahman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College
Rosa Martinez, Writing Tutor, Guttman Community College
osalind P. Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Graduate Center/Hunter College
Rose M. Kim, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, BMCC/CUNY
Rupal Oza, Professor, WGS, Hunter College
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor, EES, CUNY Graduate Center
S. Harris, Adjunct Professor, Queens College
S.E. Hackney, Queens College
Saada Muntasser, Educator, The City College of New York
Seo-Young Chu, Associate Professor, Queens College
Shaimaa Elsafoury, CUNY SPH alumna former research assistant at CUNY SPH, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Sherry Millner, Professor of Cinema Studies and Media Production, Media Culture Department, College of Staten I.
Shezza Abboushi Dallal, Staff Attorney, CLEAR Project, CUNY School of Law
Silvia Alvarez-Olarra, Associate Professor of Spanish, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Sofya Aptekar, Associate Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Soniya Munshi, Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College and Critical Social Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephanie Boyle Associate Professor of History, New York City College of Technology
Stephen Blum, Professor of Music Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen C. Hosmer, Adjunct Lecturer in English Language Center (now retired), LaGuardia Community College
Stuart Chen-Hayes, Professor, School and Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Lehman College
Stuart Davis, Assistant Professor, Baruch College
Susan Buck-Morris, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Susannah Pittman, The City College of New York
Tanya Agathocleous, Professor of English, Hunter College
Tarek Z. Ismail, Associate Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Terri Ginsberg, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Arabic Program, Hunter College
Tiffany Wheatland-Disu, Adjunct Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Tim Cusack, Adjunct Lecturer in Theatre, Hunter College
Valerie Tevere, Professor, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten Island
Yana Kuchirko, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn & Graduate Center CUNY
Zhun Xu, Associate Professor of Economics, John Jay college and Graduate Center
Zoe Griffith, Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College

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