REMARKS
Impact of anti-Zionist activities on Jewish students at CUNY
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Council Member Dinowitz expresses concern about the impact of anti-Zionist activities on Jewish students at CUNY. He emphasizes that students don't feel welcome or safe when faced with anti-Zionist protests, especially those targeting Jewish student groups. Dinowitz urges CUNY to clarify when anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism.
- Discussion of protests against Jewish student groups on campus
- Concern about the use of 'Zionism' as a code word for antisemitism
- Call for CUNY to clearly define when anti-Zionism constitutes antisemitism
Eric Dinowitz
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It I I I and we we've spoken on numerous occasions, and I know you've spoken to students.
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Speak to speak to more students because they will have a different opinion than you.
1:33:12
The existence of something on a website does not necessarily mean that it is being shared.
1:33:19
You have a lot of things on your website, but there are, for a lot of people, real concerns about what even the rules are.
1:33:28
And I think the anti Zionism, antisemitism question is, of course, legally a tricky one, but morally, it's not.
1:33:37
Students don't feel welcome or safe when there's anything related to anti Zionism.
1:33:42
To the to the extent that we see protesting a Jewish student group, the Hillels, from many campuses, Jewish student life on campus, those are being protested with pictures of assault rifles, and, again, under the guise of anti Zionism, under the guise of anti Zionism, and it is critical that CUNY clarify that Zionism cannot be a code word for antisemitism.
1:34:14
It's a very simple trick.
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If you replace Zionism with Jew, would it be okay to say, and does it sound just like any other of the antisemitic tropes the Jewish community has been hearing for 100 upon 100 of years?
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And it is critical that CUNY very publicly clarify when anti Zionism is and can be anti Semitism.
1:34:36
I'm gonna do another round of questions for my colleagues.
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We're gonna go in the same order.
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Council member Menon.
