A substantial number of professors from the City University of New York (CUNY) have resigned from their faculty union after it passed an anti-Israel resolution and said it would consider supporting the BDS movement.
The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union that approved the resolution, told the New York Post that at least 50 educators have resigned or sent notice that they intend to do so.
He said about those supporting the resolution: “I personally have an uncomfortable feeling interacting with these faculty, and as many students have written, feel exceedingly uncomfortable on campus.”
The resolution said “PSC-CUNY condemns the massacre of Palestinians by the Israeli state’’ and denounces Israel’s “expansionism and violent incursions into occupied territories.” It also said that PSC-CUNY “cannot be silent about the continued subjection of Palestinians to the state-supported displacement, occupation and use of lethal force by Israel.”
The resolution additionally drew parallels between the Palestinian struggle for “self-determination” to those of “indigenous people and people of color in the United States” and blacks in apartheid South Africa,” according to the New York Post. It also revealed that in the fall, PSC will “facilitate discussions … and consider PSC support of the 2005 call for boycott, divestment and sanctions” against Israel.