Not in Our Name CUNY demands that Hunter administration apologize for antisemitism smear

from Mondoweiss

On February 28, 2024, Not in Our Name CUNY organized a rally at Hunter College with other anti-Zionist Jewish and Palestinian student groups to protest the role of campus Hillel chapters in building support for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza — and to announce their desire to create non-Zionist Jewish spaces on campuses. The rally was smeared by Hillel and right-wing media as violent and antisemitic. In response, NION CUNY and the Hunter Palestinian Student Alliance have issued a statement to set the record straight on the events of February 28.

To the Hunter administration and Hunter Hillel executives,

We, Jewish and Palestinian student organizers, demand that both the Hunter President, Ann Kirschner, and the executives of Hunter Hillel issue a public email correcting the dangerously false and misleading allegations against Jewish & Palestinian student protestors on February 28, 2024.

In an email issued to the Hunter student and academic worker body on February 28, Hunter Hillel falsely claimed that protesters “…blocked the West building of Hunter College, engaged in hate speech, and “physically intimidated [Hunter] students.” Hillel Hunter also immediately released an Instagram post claiming that student protesters engaged in “age-old antisemitic tropes” by decontextualizing the chants and speeches of the protestors who were challenging a publicly advertised trip by Hillel. Hillel at Baruch’s & Tanger Hillel’s yearly “Hillel on Base” trip— is a trip publicly sponsored and promoted by Hillel International...

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