NYC pol calls for investigation of anti-Israel CUNY professor over protests

Israel-hating CUNY professor allegedly helped organize a hateful campus protest resulting in $3 million A pair of city council members blamed the loss.

Council members Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) and Kalman Yeager (D-Brooklyn) are calling for an investigation and potentially the professor’s dismissal.

They claim they have “reliable information” that assistant political science professor Corinna Mullin was among the ringleaders. april halt at the City College of New York’s Harlem campus.

NYPD Police and Campus Police arrested Roughly speaking 170 anti-Israel protesters at CCNY on April 30, including Mullin, According to report,

Due to the demonstration, fire broke out in Vigyan Bhawan and Other violent incidents,

Wernikov and Yeager, who are both Jewish, sent a scathing letter to CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez on Friday regarding Mullin.

“We demand an immediate investigation, and if confirmed, appropriate consequences,” Pols wrote. “Any student or faculty whose actions caused chaos and violence at a taxpayer-funded college, resulting in more than $3 million in damage, must be held accountable.”

According to CthroughNY, Mullin teaches at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Brooklyn College and received a total of $37,500 in taxpayer-funded salary last year.

Pols wrote that the radical academic has previously been linked to John Jay’s chapter of the Israel-hate group Students for Justice in Palestine and the “terrorist supporting organization” Within Our Lifetime.

During the demonstrations, protesters fired flare guns, causing a fire on the roof of a science building; clashed with public security officials; and broke into an administration building, where they broke glass doors and ransacked offices, According to school officials.

Protestors also threw rocks at campus police and sprayed them with pepper spray during the melee, injuring two CUNY policemen, a campus official told The Post.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Mullin had received a summons after his arrest, but did not say what charges he was charged with.

Mullin complained to journalists at a press conference in May about the “inhumane treatment” he and others received after their arrest.

The MPs’ letter to Matos Rodriguez comes after the formation of the city council Higher Education Committee hearing last monthHeld in view of Scandalous independent report It found that CUNY needed to improve its policies to deal with anti-Semitism on its 25 college campuses.

During the hearing, Matos Rodriguez repeatedly dodged questions from Wernikov, Yeager and other pols about whether CUNY students and faculty were disciplined for their involvement in the demonstrations.

However, the campus police officer said he personally knew six CUNY faculty members and 15 students who were apprehended by campus police during the April protests – and that none of them were disciplined.

“A number of policies were violated and CUNY is not holding anyone accountable for their actions,” the official said.

Mullin’s attorney, Nancy Smith, said the council members’ letter contained “false and defamatory statements” about the teacher, who they claim was arrested during a “peaceful protest.”

He insisted that Mullin did not violate the law during the CCNY protests, noting that trespassing charges against the academic were dropped and claiming that the CUNY community protesters were “non-violent” and that their demonstration caused no harm. Didn’t happen.

Mullin, Smith added, “will not be intimidated by current McCarthyism.”

CUNY did not respond to requests for comment.