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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:58 PM Mar 2016

Campus Anti-Semitism Prompts New York Lawmakers To Slash Funds

The New York State Senate has voted to slash $485 million in funding to senior colleges in the City University of New York system to “send a message” that not done enough to fight campus anti-Semitism. On March 14, a state budget resolution championed by Republicans passed after a sprawling 2-hour debate on the Senate floor, Capital New York reports.

“These are the things that have been happening at CUNY,” said GOP State Sen. Ken LaValle of Long Island. LaValle, who chairs the chamber’s committee on higher education, described what he said is a pattern of anti-Semitic incidents, “and these are the things that the Senate Republican conference says are intolerable and must stop.”

The resolution was met with vocal opponents who called into question both the allegations of anti-Semitism and the usefulness of cutting funding to the school.

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The allegations of anti-Semitism stem from a long February letter penned by the Zionist Organization of America to CUNY, accusing the group Students for Justice in Palestine of anti-Semitic actions on campuses.

The letter describes incidents at four colleges in particular – Hunter College, Brooklyn College, the College of Staten Island, and John Jay College – including swastikas appearing on campuses and pro-Palestinian protestors shouting at Jewish students: “Zionists out of CUNY!” and “Get out of the Middle East!”

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