50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
“I will not be a part of an organization that supports those who wish to destroy us,” said Professor Yedidyah Langsam, chairman of Brooklyn’s College’s Computer and Information Science Department.
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The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union that approved the resolution, told the
New York Post that at least 50 educators have resigned or sent notice that they intend to do so.
“With the PSC-CUNY resolution, you have chosen to support a terrorist organization, Hamas, whose goal (‘From the River to the Sea’) is to destroy the State of Israel and kill all my relatives who live there,” said Professor Yedidyah Langsam, chairman of Brooklyn’s College’s Computer and Information Science Department and its faculty council, in his letter of resignation to PSC union president James Davis.