SAFE CUNY

I have some news. As many of you know, shortly after I filed an internal discrimination complaint based on antizionist antisemitism on my campus, CUNY immediately placed me under investigation for doing so. Then, they tortured me for 8 months, refusing to tell me --despite knowing for all of that time-- that the outside firm investigating me had fully exonerated me. Since I learned of my exoneration in a laughably short letter with no summary or information from the report, CUNY has refused to produce the full report, in violation of NYS FOIL laws. One can only wonder what that report says of CUNY investigating someone for filing an antisemitism complaint. CUNY doesn't want me, or you, or anyone, to know. But, "how can we continue to make Prof. Lax's life miserable until he finally leaves or steps down as dept. chair" is still clearly on CUNY's top to-do list. As part of my protest against the main perpetrator of my campus's antisemitism problem-- my then direct supervisor, @CUNYKCCPRES, I resigned from her Personnel & Budget Committee, consistent with my absolute right to do so under CUNY Bylaws. To my knowledge, I am the only person to ever resign from my campus's esteemed "P & B" committee. I did so, because I did not wish to serve under its antisemitic chair, President Claudia Schrader (who is now interim President of CUNY's York College). This week, because of what I did, CUNY has announced plans to change bylaws that have stood for some 60 years. It proclaimed its plan to prohibit department chairs from resigning from the College P & B committee, for the first time in its history. Some on my campus have called me privately with sympathy, calling it "the Jeff Lax rule." The rule forces participation on a committee that has been voluntary for department chairs for 60 years. It would require even a department chair who was, for example, sexually assaulted by the P & B committee chair (the college president) to continue to serve under her. It would, as with me, require a department chair with fully substantiated discrimination claims against the P & B committee chair (as I have by the EEOC against President Schrader) to continue to serve under that chair. It is outrageous, petty, and clearly directed at me in retaliation for the "crime" of speaking out about antisemites leading our campuses and about widespread antisemitism on our campuses. I don't know how my story will end, and as a man with a family that I love dearly, that really scares me. But it is clear that CUNY is intent on doing everything it can to make things continue to be AND end very badly for me. Seeing other universities now beginning to take this same vicious and illegal approach, such as Columbia doing so to the courageous @ShaiDavidai, only strengthens my resolve to continue to fight what is happening on our campuses.

It sounds like Hamas has finally begun to surrender. What great news, if this is accurate and widespread: From @i24NEWS_EN. Hamas terrorist from "elite" unit surrenders with his group and advises others to do the same, or they will die.

Please, please read and help us (@_SAFECAMPUS) if you can and a HUGE warning for all Jewish advocacy groups: Please watch the below @canarymission video exposing @stopzionisthate, a Jewish hate group that is dedicated to getting Zionist Jews fired from jobs (they brag of it in their own pinned Tweet) and getting Jewish advocacy groups banned from social media. They have hundreds of thousands of followers and are VERY EFFECTIVE. They have succeeded in getting our group, @_SAFECAMPUS, locked out of @x for over 3 weeks now through a coordinated bombardment of false complaints about @_SAFECAMPUS's Tweet. We did not “doxx” Fatima Mohammed. We did not share her location or personal information. We did not share any information at all except a video of her own hateful speech at a public location (unknown to us!), that had already occurred (so she was not at whatever location it was when we Tweeted it, and that had already been shared by countless X and other media outlets. After @X --which is STILL not responded to our 3-week old appeal-- locked us out, our antisemitism “tips” email account was absolutely bombarded with thousands of SPAM emails. We are hearing from other Jewish advocacy groups that this is @stopzionisthate’s newest ploy. Signing up pro-Jewish accounts for thousands of spam email subscriptions so that real antisemitism complaints cannot be found in our email accounts because we have to spend hours and hours a day deleting spam and trying to unsubscribe from the overwhelming spam emails they have signed us up to receive. We need your help. If you, or anyone you know, can help us get back on @x and put an end to what @stopzionisthate is doing, we would be forever grateful and it would be a tremendous service to all Jewish groups involved in the movement to eradicate antisemitism. Thank you. canarymission.org/campaign/Revea…

Why does @nyuniversity continue to pay their antisemitic adjunct professors who have been suspended for egregious violations of "discrimination and anti-harassment policies" post-Oct. 7? And why have they not been fired? hamodia.com/2024/01/25/nyu…

We must all tag and thank @JohnFetterman for his bravery, courage and heroic clear-eyed moral stance in the name of humanity and to protect decency. ♥️🇮🇱