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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 t
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At least 50 professors at the City University of New York have quit their union following passage of a resolution condemning Israel.
The New York Post on Sunday quoted James Davis, president of the Professional Staff Congress, as saying that the professors have quit in the wake of the resolution or signaled their intention to do so. The union represents academic staff at CUNY.
Davis suggested that there was an effort to bring back the disaffected professors.
“We are in active dialogue with members who have expressed concern over the resolution,” he told the Post.
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