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And we think it's just Trump who's suppressing free speech [1]
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Date: 2025-02-27
Using the power of the state to suppress or chill certain viewpoints and opinions. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has done the same thing:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered Hunter College to remove job listings for two Palestinian studies positions Tuesday, following criticism from pro-Israel groups.
The two job listings, one in the humanities and one in the sciences, sought scholars who take “a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender and sexuality.”
StopAntisemitism, a strident pro-Israel group, described the listing as part of a “blood libel” at CUNY and Steve McGuire, who works for a right-wing group that monitors higher education, lamented that “Hunter College is looking to hire an anti-Israel activist.”
Hochul’s office did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday about why the governor had made the school take down the listings; whether similar interventions had happened before; and whether the job listings were simply being rewritten or the positions eliminated.
Early Tuesday, the New York Post reported on what it described as backlash from “furious Jewish watchdog groups.” It cited two pro-Israel groups and a former CUNY trustee, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who made headlines in 2011 for blocking Tony Kushner, the Jewish playwright who wrote Angels in America, from receiving an honorary degree because of his criticism of Israel.
Gowayed, who is also a writer and an outspoken critic of Israel, criticized the move as evidence of “a new McCarthy era.”
“Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever,” she added.
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These are indeed dark days, especially if you don’t adhere to the pro-Israel line. As bad or worse than the McCarthy era. And like then, it’s bipartisan.
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