Following up on my previous post, CUNY Law Graduate's Commencement Speech Denouncing Israel And NYPD Is Condemned By Administration; Faculty Demands Apology From Administration (New York Times): ABA Journal, As Culture Wars Continue, City University of New York School of Law Is Latest Target:
A May commencement speech given by a City University of New York School of Law graduate, who criticized Israel and law enforcement, was met with applause. But by the end of the month, she was on the cover of the New York Post with a headline that read: “Stark raving grad.” …
The law school is one of many in the past year to have bad press days, or perhaps bad press weeks, following student activities involving sensitive topics. That includes law schools at Stanford University, the University of Idaho, the University of California at Berkeley and the Georgetown University Law Center. …
Most universities want to see graduation speakers’ remarks before the event, but there’s no guarantee that the speaker will stay on script, according to [Evan Nierman (Co-Author, The Cancel Culture Curse: From Rage to Redemption in a World Gone Mad (2023)]. … Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a Journal contributor, says it would never occur to him to vet a student’s speech. “I would not want to engage in that kind of censorship,” he explains.
- The Algemeiner, Congressman Calls for Civil Rights Investigation of CUNY Law School
- The Algemeiner, New York Times Whitewashes CUNY Law Commencement Hatefest With ‘Wildly Misleading’ Column
- Daily Caller, NYC Law School Slapped With Complaint Over Anti-Israel Policy
- Daily Mail, America's Largest Muslim Advocacy Group Slams CUNY Leadership For Being 'Dishonest' For Calling Law Grad's Speech Where She Called For Attacks on Cops 'Hateful' – And School APPROVED It in Advance
- Daily Mail, Jewish Legal Group Asks New York Supreme Court to Block CUNY Student, 24, From Becoming a Lawyer, Claiming Her 'Hate-Filled' Graduation Speech Proves 'She Lacks the Character and Fitness to Practice Law'
- Jerusalem Post, Anti-Zionist speech at CUNY is antisemitic
- Law & Crime, CUNY Law School Commencement Address Sparks Legal Question About the Divide Between Free Speech and Hate Speech
- Mosaic Magazine, CUNY’s Law Faculty Unanimously Endorsed a Student-Led BDS Resolution—After CUNY’s Chancellor Unequivocally Rejected It
- The Nation, Does CUNY's Fatima Mousa Mohammed Oppose Israel’s Very Existence?
- National Review, What Would Happen If We Defunded Antisemitic Schools?
- New York Law Journal, CUNY Law: Does 'Free Speech' Mean a Right to Platform Too?
- New York Law Journal, Long Island Democrat Pens Bipartisan Letter Blasting CUNY Law School Commencement Speech
- New York Post, CUNY’s Troubling Jew-Hatred Sanctioning Is Bigotry on the Taxpayer’s Dime
- New York Post, Jewish Group Demands CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez Resign Over Law School Hate speech
- New York Post, Jewish Groups Ask IRS to Probe CUNY Law’s Tax-Exempt Status After ‘Hate Speech’
- New York Post, Muslim Group Claims CUNY Brass Pre-Approved Law School Grad’s ‘Hate’ Speech
- Times of Israel, Free Speech and Anti-Zionism at CUNY Law
- Toronto Sun, Law School Grad Speech Nothing But Contempt
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA; Google Scholar), Graduation Speeches, "Hate Speech," and the CUNY Law Controversy
- Howard Wasserman (Florida International), CUNY Law Graduation: Everyone Screws Up a Free Speech Problem



