CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE dent, and sanctioning wrongdoers in accordance with CCNY’s rules. Hours after receiving the ZOA’s emailed letter, President Boudreau issued an excellent statement to the CCNY community. It included an apology to Mr. Dayan and notified the community that a committee had been established to investigate the incident and to recommend a course of action, including discipline. Hopefully, these steps will discourage future disruptions and ensure that invited guests can express their pro-Israel views unimpeded. ZOA RAISES PUBLIC AWARENESS OF ISRAELHATER 17 LINDA SARSOUR Last spring, the School of Public Health at the City University of New York (CUNY) named Linda Sarsour as its commencement speaker. Sarsour, an organizer of last January’s Women’s March on Washington, has been touted by some as an activist and feminist. However, as the ZOA demonstrated in public statements and in letters to Chancellor James Milliken, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Governor Andrew Cuomo, Sarsour’s record made her a terrible choice for commencement speaker. Sarsour has tweeted that “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is a waste of a human being.” She opposes the existence of the Jewish state and supports the anti-Israel BDS movement. Pitzer College reached the right result under the law and for the good of the campus. The trustees rejected the Student Senate’s divisive, anti-Semitic tactics and prevented an initiative that surely would have poisoned the campus climate, particularly for Jewish and pro-Israel students. AFTER ISRAELI DIPLOMAT’S PROGRAM IS DISRUPTED, CITY COLLEGE APOLOGIZES AND INVESTIGATES Last May, at the invitation of the ZOA and others, Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York, was a featured speaker at the City College of New York (CCNY). However, members and supporters of the hate group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) disrupted Mr. Dayan’s presentation—a common SJP tactic on many campuses to stifle Jewish and pro-Israel voices. The ZOA wrote to Dr. Vincent Boudreau, CCNY’s interim president, identifying several SJP violations of CCNY’s Henderson Rules of Student Conduct. The rules prohibit obstructing others from the exercise of their rights and interfering with an invited guest’s right to advocate his or her views without fearing abuse from those with conflicting viewpoints. The ZOA urged President Boudreau to take several remedial steps, which included issuing a written apology to Mr. Dayan, fully investigating the inci- Pitzer College (courtesy of www.campusgrotto. com) Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Hours after receiving the ZOA’s emailed letter, CCNY President Boudreau issued an excellent statement to the CCNY community. It included an apology to Dani Dayan and notified the community that a committee had been established to investigate the incident and recommend a course of action, including discipline.
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