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CUNY AXES PANEL ON ‘GLOBALIZING THE INTIFADA!’ THAT WAS RIPPED AS ‘GUIDE FOR
JUNIOR TERRORISTS’

By Carl Campanile, Aneeta Bhole and Ronny Reyes

Published Feb. 5, 2024, 5:58 p.m. ET

Embattled CUNY was set to host a panel titled “Globalizing the Intifada!” —
before higher-ups got wise and canceled the event as outcry spread Monday.

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The City University of New York’s Lehman College had set aside space for the
upcoming Feb. 16 session, which was called “Globalizing the Intifada! Mapping
Struggles for Palestine between the Streets and our Classrooms” and part of what
the university described as a one-day “Engagement, Equity and Antiracism”
conference.

“Intifada” is an Arabic word that has been used to describe periods of violent
protests against Israel, including infamous waves of terrorist attacks in the
late ’80s and early 2000s.

When details about the panel surfaced Monday and critics came out swinging —
blasting the event as a “how to guide for junior terrorists” — the college nixed
it.

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“The Engagement, Equity and Antiracism conference is meant to support professors
in teaching students who are struggling, with pedagogy at the center,” said Jane
Kehoe Higgins, director of Lehman’s Institute for Literacy Studies, in a
statement to The Post — adding that the panel was pulled when school officials
butted heads with its organizers, who included CUNY teachers and students.

“The goal is to bring people together, not to cause harm or make students feel
unsafe,” Higgins said. “It is not a podium for protest. After discussion with
the panelists, I do not believe we share the same goal.

“There are appropriate venues for them to share their views, but this conference
is not one of them and the panel has been canceled.”

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Foes of the planned panel said the topic was blatantly antisemitic.


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CUNY’s Lehman college was set to host a panel titled “Globalizing the Intifada!”
as part of a conference on antiracism. CUNY

“This event was like a `how to’ guide for junior terrorists,” said Jeffrey
Wiesenfeld, a former longtime CUNY trustee, to The Post.

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“Every day there’s something crazy and unbelievable going on at CUNY,” he said.
“Supporting the intifada is not only antisemitism, it’s anti-civilization.”

US Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) seethed, “The Second Intifada [in the early 2000s]
unleashed a wave of terror attacks and suicide bombings that left 1,000 Israelis
dead.

“Any event seeking to ‘globalize the intifada’ is an open invitation to violence
against Jews across the globe. The glorification of antisemitic violence has no
place in a public university, where all students have a right to be and feel
safe,” the congressman added. 

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As with other colleges across New York and the nation, CUNY has been under fire
over antisemitic incidents that have occurred on their campuses since the brutal
Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian terror group Hamas. The continuing
conflict between the sides is threatening to create World War III.

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The original schedule highlighted the panel to help students learn how to act in
solidarity for Palestinians while not including the negative meaning behind
“Intifada.”

CUNY is already under investigation by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration for
antisemitic incidents, and she has launched programs to combat antisemitism in
general at New York universities.

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On Monday, a once-public Google document of the “Intifada” event was updated to
remove any mention of the panel before it was set private.

The panel’s posted schedule, viewed by The Post before it was yanked, listed
Brittany Munro, a member of CUNY’s Graduate Center, as the moderator. Munro, an
international PHD student, is an instructor at the Lehman college who was touted
by the center as one of its best teachers in 2023.

Included on the panel of speakers was Professor Conor Tomas Reed of the Shape of
Cities to Come Institute.

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An updated form of the schedule showed the program removed and replaced with a
panel on teaching.

According to Reed’s Web site, he has “been immersed in almost two decades of
struggles at the City University of New York and in New York City around
transforming education and public space, anti-imperialism, police and prison
abolition, solidarity with Palestine and Puerto Rico, reproductive rights,
housing justice, and beyond.”

Also listed on the panel was Lucien Baskin of CUNY’s Graduate Center and Reem
Ockeh of Lehman College.

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Baskin, who includes the phrase “From the River to the Sea” in his Twitter bio,
is a doctoral student in Urban Education, and Ockeh is an English literature
major.

Munro, Baskin and Reed were among the more than 1,000 people who signed a CUNY
community petition calling for the boycott of Israel as a show of solidarity
with Palestinians over the war in Gaza.

Neither Munrow, Baskin, Reed nor Ockeh immediately responded to the Post’s
request for comment.

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Lehman College said the program was pulled over disagreements with the
panelists.

“The time has come for the State of New York to appoint an independent monitor,
charged with monitoring antisemitism on CUNY campuses,” Torres told The Post.
“The self-policing of CUNY will no longer suffice.”

A rep for the governor said, “Gov. Hochul has taken significant steps to fight
antisemitism on college campuses, launching a first-of-its-kind review of
antisemitism at CUNY earlier this year.

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“Gov. Hochul has repeatedly condemned all forms of antisemitism and she supports
CUNY’s decision to cancel this panel.” 

What do you think? Post a comment.

Lehman College spokesman Richard Relkin added to the school’s position in
another statement, saying, “We support the conference organizer’s decision to
cancel the panel, since its polarizing title was not reflective of the theme of
the conference and does not align with campus policy.

“Lehman College is committed to creating safe spaces for our community to have
civil and productive conversations and we will continue to promote diversity and
fight hate in all forms, including antisemitism and Islamophobia.”


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