Avraham Goldstein
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Hello, and thank you for this panel.
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So I am professor of mathematics at BMCC CUNY.
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So first, I want to speak about this concrete event which happened this April.
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I saw posters near the classroom where I teach, calling for intifada with pictures of Hamas, fighter or terrorist, I should say, and calling for communist revolution.
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Are your Marxists joining the revolution?
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I reported those, posters officially from my BMC email to our president.
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A few hours later, I got email from the DEI office asking me and I provided pictures, videos which I documented, asking me if I know, who put them and how and how they're put.
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And, basically, they informed me that the investigation has been open.
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Investigation of discrimination, which I never filed.
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I filed safety, complaint.
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I said that it's dangerous.
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There's a, terrorist group putting posters calling for violence on the campus.
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And there were cameras there.
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And in my videos, you see there were cameras.
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And they asked the administration to investigate.
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Instead, there is an investigation open for more than could be against me.
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I wrote several emails including to chancellor and Derek Davis who was here today, both to his official mail and to and to the office, which he leads.
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Till today, I didn't get an answer.
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Did they see look at the camera.
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Who who am I investigating?
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Am I my witness in this investigation?
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Is it investigation against me because I reported it?
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So this is an example.
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What I'm trying to to say is that report is, like, maybe a good report, but it leaves vague who will implement it.
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While the administration, both central and on the president level, are complicit in enabling in in systemic and systematities.
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We try to shut down the stories.
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You cannot let them investigate themselves and implement against themselves the policies which Lippmann recommends.
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It has to be a totally neutral outside body who will do it in a transparent way.
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This is what I wanted to say.
