New York Post: Leaders of CUNY, other college antisemitism hotbeds to be grilled by House panel next month

CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and two other college chiefs will be hauled before the House Education Committee next month to get grilled about the antisemitism that has festered at their schools.

Rodríguez will join Georgetown University interim President Robert Groves and the University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons in testifying before the education panel July 9, officials said.

The hearing will center around the role of “faculty, funding and ideology” in fueling antisemitism on campuses and mark the second high-profile session the panel has had this year. The move comes after the panel’s deep dive into antisemitism in non-Ivy League institutions last month.

“We continue to see antisemitic hatred festering at schools across the country,” said House Education Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) in a statement. 

“While much of the discussion has focused on the devastating effects of antisemitism, this hearing will focus on the underlying factors instigating antisemitic upheaval and hatred on campus.”

The City University of New York — the nation’s largest public urban college system with 25 degree-granting institutions — has been dogged by complaints of antisemitism for years.

An independent probe commissioned by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and released in September found that CUNY needed a top-to-bottom overhaul to combat “alarming’’ antisemitism fanned by its own faculty and do-nothing higher-ups.

The state is the principal source of funding for CUNY’s four-year schools, such as Hunter, and the Big Apple chips in to help pay for its community colleges.

The governor and Mayor Eric Adams appoint the trustees to CUNY’s policy-making board.

There’s been a spate of Jew-hating and Israel-bashing controversies since the latest Mideast war broke out Oct. 7, 2023.

Just last week, The Post reported that the board chairman of CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies was forced to resign for spreading “antisemitic conspiracy theories” about Israel.

Anti-Israel agitators also brawled with cops at Brooklyn College last month after the protesters set up a tent encampment and disrupted final exams. An officer was forced to fire a Taser during the violent clash.

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