CUNY Faculty Are Still Determined to Hire Palestinian Studies Scholars
Luca Goldmansour | 05 March 2025 | The Nation
The hiring committees at Hunter College have resubmitted a Palestinian studies job posting after New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered that a previous version be taken down last week, according to a member of a hiring committee who spoke to The Nation on the condition of anonymity. But before it can be published, Hunter’s dean of diversity and compliance must now determine whether the proposed position is consistent with the school’s legal antidiscrimination obligations.
On February 25, Hochul ordered CUNY to remove the first listing after the New York Post reported that it included terms like “settler colonialism,” “genocide,” and “apartheid” relating to Palestine and its history. The governor suggested that this language constituted “antisemitic theories,” and CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodriguez and Board of Trustees chair William Thompson agreed, telling the Post that the listing was “divisive, polarizing, and inappropriate.”…