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In an exclusive interview with World Israel News, Prof. Jeffrey Lax says he hopes an outrageous commencement speech made by a radicalized antisemitic graduate strengthens his group’s case against the law school.
By Atara Beck, World Israel News
The commencement speech by City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed, delivered on May 12, alarmed not only Jews, but also patriotic Americans. They were outraged not only by her vicious lies against the State of Israel, but even more so by what seemed to be a call for the destruction of America.
Some are calling for the school to be defunded.
.@RitchieTorres is spot on here. This hater can spout her hate where she pleases but it should not be at the publicly funded @CUNY school of law. Her antisemitism destroyed this commencement and it must be roundly condemned and should not have been sanctioned with public funds. https://t.co/Hvtrzubcum
— Barry Grodenchik (@BarryGrodenchik) May 29, 2023
Mohammed’s speech was “even worse than last year’s hate spewed by Nerdeen Kiswani,” tweeted S.A.F.E. CUNY (Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY) – a non-profit that advocates for Zionist Jews systemically discriminated against and excluded by the CUNY. Furthermore, according to the tweet, “CUNY Law, under state investigation, tried to hide this video.”
Following a complaint by S.A.F.E. CUNY against the CUNY School of Law several months ago because of its unanimous adoption of BDS as policy, the school has come under investigation.
In her address, Mohammed said she “want[s] to celebrate CUNY Law as one of the few, if not the only, law school to make a public statement defending the right of its students to organize and speak out against Israeli settler colonialism.
“This is the law school that has passed and endorsed BDS [anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] on a student and faculty level,” she affirmed, before listing vicious and false claims against the Jewish state.
Prof. Jeffrey Lax, business department chair at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College and founder of S.A.F.E. CUNY, told World Israel News in a telephone interview that he hopes Mohammed’s speech, which is now out in the open, will help their case, stressing that the implementation of BDS, a discriminatory boycott, is a violation of New York law.
“We filed a complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights,” Lax said. “We hope that this evidence will help solidify the claims against CUNY Law.”
But anti-Israel propaganda was not the most alarming part of Mohammed’s speech, which included “rage” against American institutions and values and encouraged “revolution.”
Although Mohammed acknowledged and praised the law school’s encouragement of anti-Israel activity, she nonetheless slammed CUNY Central, which “continues to fail us, continues to train and cooperate with the fascist New York Police Department, the military, that continues to train [Israeli] soldiers to carry out that same violence globally.”
The U.S. legal system, she said, is “a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world.”
“May the rage that fills this auditorium dance in the hallways of our elementary schools…may it be the fuel for the fight against capitalism and racism, imperialism and Zionism around the world…by any means necessary…
“We will protect the fight that brings us all closer to the fall of all oppressive institutions – a reality that is only myopic and unrealistic to the oppressors, but is the inevitable future for the oppressed, for oppressed people everywhere.
“Far greater empires of destruction have fallen before, and so will these. And so, to the class of 2023, the fight begins now.”
“What I find truly incredible is not just that Mohammed’s speech is clearly evil – I’m not interested in a random evil student, even though she’s now a graduate. What I’m much more interested in is that the faculty most likely saw that speech and approved it,” Lax said in the interview.
The speech “was very close to incitement. When you call for rage against Zionists and capitalism – to me, that’s like calling for an insurrection. But the thing that stood out most is that CUNY Law livestreamed the entire graduation ceremony, and as soon as it was over, they wiped it from the internet, from their website.
“My group made a freedom of information request for the video. Of course, they wouldn’t want to give it to us; they made it public.
“To me, a big part of the story is: I think the reason they initially wiped it off the internet was to keep it away from investigators, because in that video, Mohammed gives the perfect example of how BDS policy is being actively implemented at the law school, and that is damning evidence against the law school in the state investigation against them.”
S.A.F.E. CUNY, Lax continued, “followed up with a letter to New York State, alerting them to the fact that CUNY Law tried to conceal evidence and obstruct the investigation by preventing them from seeing the video, which shows that BDS is truly being implemented there.”
WIN: How dangerous is Mohammed?
“I think that when people talk about the First Amendment – and no one believes in the First Amendment and pushes it more than I do – they have to realize that there are extreme exceptions, like incitement to violence. When she calls for rage against Zionism, against capitalism, against the police and the U.S. military – to me, that comes very close, if not actually there, to incitement to violence and an insurrection against America.”
WIN: Mohammed’s speech was interrupted several time by enthusiastic applause. There was no audible booing or challenges to her claims. What does that say about the law school and the graduates in attendance?
“What I heard was resounding applause. It says to me that the New York Bar Association should reconsider its accreditation of CUNY Law School because, again, I believe that speech was an incitement to violence. We need to find out whether the administration saw and approved that speech before it was given.”
It’s strange that the speech would be endorsed, only to be wiped off the internet immediately after being delivered. Perhaps the person who approved it was not the same person who wiped it off the internet immediately?
“Sometimes, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. I don’t want to speculate because I don’t know. And maybe she went slightly off script. We don’t know. I think we need that information. We need to see the speech that was given to the school – if it was given to them beforehand. We need to see who approved it. These are questions that demand answers.”
WIN: We know that there’s a lot of radicalism on American college campuses in general. Jews and Zionists have a hard time, they have to deal with so much anti-Israel propaganda and discrimination. But what happened now at CUNY Law School – is that above and beyond?
“I’ll put it this way. That was the worst commencement speech that I have ever heard in my entire life. It’s not even close. And that includes last year’s address by Nerdeen Kiswani. This call for defunding the American military – what does that mean?”
WIN: Could Mohammed be prevented from practicing law as a result of her speech?
“I hope that happens. One part of admission to the bar is a character interview, in which someone designated from the bar would assess whether her character is becoming for an attorney. I believe that she should be turned down. Whether or not that happens will solely depend on who that person interviewing her is.”
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Should Christians idealize dictatorships or even suggest dictatorship for America? In the current “postliberal” moment, there’s a new Christian authoritarian chic. Recent examples include a conservative Christian finding virtue with East German communism, and another extolling a “Protestant” Francisco Franco for America.
The first example is American Conservative editor Helen Andrews, who’s Eastern Orthodox, in a book review called “What Soviet Nostalgia Gets Right.” Andrews laments the decline of birthrates in East Germany after communism fell, perhaps due to the “end of universal subsidized daycare and lavish ‘birth-year’ maternity leave, which had been a jewel of the East German welfare state.” There was also the “loss of a sense of purpose.”
And Andrews notes:
Most post-Soviet countries are more prosperous now than in 1990, after experiencing temporary declines during the period of “Shock Therapy.” But drug use and street crime, which had been rare in East Germany, were brought in with reunification, along with pornography and sex shops. Those old-timers who have sensed a rise in overall disorder and degeneracy have a point.
And:
The bargain that East Germany offered is basically the one China offers now: Stay out of politics, and we will leave you alone, and in return, we will deliver rising living standards. Most people are happy to take this deal, and in the case of China, the rest of the world doesn’t condemn them for it. Twenty years ago, the vast majority of Chinese graduate students stayed in America after earning their doctorates. Now the trend is to return to China. They are voting with their feet.
As to East Germany’s infamous police state, Andrews says: “Even pervasive surveillance, excruciating for independent thinkers, was an annoyance at most for the average person. And regarding complaints about East Germany’s lower standards of living compared to West Germany, Andrews responds:
In fact, by many of the indices of consumer wealth—percentage of households owning a car, a fridge, a washing machine, a TV—East Germany performed very respectably, especially by the end of the 1970s. If its consumer products were fewer and shabbier than the West’s, its leaders said, with some justification, this was made up for in other ways: free health care and daycare, subsidized public transport, excellent schools.
Andrews blames West Germany for isolating East Germany in a virtual “trade embargo” at least until 1970.
Of course, Andrews’s ultimate point is not to glamorize East Germany but to deride liberal democracy and free markets. She writes that “for millions of people who lived under a different system, the superiority of liberalism wasn’t obvious. To take their views seriously is also to consider the possibility that alternatives exist now, too.”
What are those “alternatives” to liberal democracy?
For American Reformer editor Joshua Abbotoy, it’s possibly an American one-man personal dictatorship. He tweeted: “Basically, America is going to need a Protestant Franco.” American Reformer is an online Calvinist publication at least adjacent to Reformed advocates of a “magisterial” Protestant confessional state. Another postliberal Reformed online polemicist, Nick Solheim of American Moment, supportively tweeted his endorsement, along with a pro-Franco podcast.
Abbotoy later added: “I don’t personally want Franco or Pinochet. Their regimes were less than ideal in many ways. I want a virtuous citizenry capable of self-governance. But at this point you need to have your head in the sand if you don’t see parallels to 1930s Spain.”
The point behind the Franco endorsement was that at least Franco knew how to manage the Left. His management was defeating Spain’s leftist regime in a brutal civil war, killing tens of thousands of opponents, incarcerating hundreds of thousands, and reigning through a one-man, one-party dictatorship for almost 40 years until he died.
Spain’s choices in the 1930s were indeed grim. The Republican regime, although elected, bolshevized through its reliance on support from Stalin. Factions within the regime waged a “red terror,” killing thousands of priests, lay Catholics and other perceived opponents.” Their victory likely meant a communist or at least pro-Soviet Spain.
Franco of course was backed by Mussolini and Hitler, who expected Franco to join them in their eventual war with the world. To his credit, Franco, although sending “volunteers” to fight with the Nazi invasion of the USSR, declined to war against the West. After winning his own civil war, he waged his own “white terror,” which often involved working thousands of adversaries to death in concentration camps. Among other crimes, children of adversaries, often before their imprisonment and ultimate death, were stolen and awarded to Franco supporters.
Across four decades, no opposition to Franco was tolerated. Spain’s Catholic hierarchy supported him against the leftist Republicans but later chaffed under his rule, when it was clear that their privileged status required subservience to him. Among other powers, he claimed authority over appointing bishops. Spain’s Catholic prelates later broke with the dictatorship, especially after Vatican II affirmed religious freedom with other human rights, and supported Spain’s post-Franco transition to democracy.
Abbotoy, in his defense of Franco, noted the “Republicans intended to carry out a pogrom against Christian peoples in Spain, and Franco stopped it.” More specifically, Franco defended the Catholic Church, which was the only fully legal religion in Spain. He was not interested in defending other Christians or religionists. Protestants, with Jews and others, were banned from a public presence in Franco’s Spain and could not directly own property or openly publish their religious materials. Typically, Protestants worshipped in private homes or in disguised buildings, which sometimes were still closed by the police. Under Franco’s law, “no other external ceremonies or manifestations than those of the Catholic religion shall be permitted.” Protestants were banned from government and faced obstacles even in private industry. There were no legally recognized Protestant marriages. In 1956 the only Protestant seminary was closed. Catholic religious instruction in schools was mandatory.
American Protestants, both Mainline and Evangelical, commonly complained about Franco’s suppression of Spanish Protestants, for whom they prayed. As Franco was a Cold War ally who hosed a U.S. airbase, the U.S. said little to nothing about Franco’s repressions.
Advocating for a “Protestant” Franco echoes a new generation of Calvinist theocrats like Stephen Wolfe, author of In Defense of Christian Nationalism, which advocates for a “theocratic caesarism.” In this vision, a Calvinist ruler would privilege Reformed believers over Catholics and others, which is farcical.
Wolfe’s fantasy aside, there can be no “Protestant” Franco because Protestantism is the direct opposite of dictatorship. Protestantism, with its stress on the individual believer’s direct connection to God, is intrinsically subversive. Dictators like Franco, no matter their own religion, typically fear and suppress most forms of Protestantism, which they see as uncontrollable.
“Liberalism” and modern democracy are largely the fruit of Protestantism. Most Calvinists and others who stressed humanity’s total depravity ultimately realized that no ruler or small clique can be trusted with arbitrary power. There must be constant safeguards and counterbalances. No hierarchy, ecclesial or political, merits complete trust.
In contrast, dictators, by nature, even when “Christian,” inevitably are tyrants, jailing, torturing, and killing their enemies, stealing from the public treasury, operating on fear and paranoia, and unwilling to surrender power. Some of us are old enough to recall “Franco is still dead” jokes from the mid-1970s. Franco, of course, retained power beyond his cognitive and physical capacities. Late night comedians wondered: “Is Franco still dead?” Thankfully, he is.
Neither of the writers, Andrews or Abbotoy, are old enough to recall much of the 20th century, whose dictators perpetrated epic crimes on hundreds of millions. Some young post-liberals think our own times are uniquely terrible. But contemporary America is superior to a single day under Franco, communist East Germany, or any dictator.
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The ten surviving Israeli agents were whisked on an emergency military flight back to Israel.
By World Israel News Staff
The Israeli victim of a fatal boat accident in northern Italy was a Mossad agent, Italian media revealed on Tuesday.
According to the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica,’ the deceased man was a former Mossad official, but his name was withheld due to Israeli sensitivities.
According to the publication, the ill-fated boat carried a total of 23 individuals at the time that it capsized. Among them were 19 Italian and 10 Israeli intelligence officers, both active and retired. Initial reports had said the group had gathered to commemorate a birthday but other reports later said it was a high level intelligence meeting.
The Israeli team and their Italian counterparts swam to the shore and were promptly rescued. Alongside the Mossad agent, three other people, including two Italian intelligence officers, lost their lives in the incident.
The ten surviving Israeli agents were whisked on an emergency military flight back to Israel.
The Italian intelligence agents were secretly transferred out of the hospitals they had arrived at in an attempt to keep their identities hidden, Italian media reported.
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A devastating event occurred off the coast of Alaska on Sunday when a charter fishing boat sank, taking one life and leaving four people unaccounted for.
The Sitka-based fishing charter company, Kingfisher Charters, alerted the Coast Guard to the missing vessel with its five passengers. The 30-foot aluminum boat was last seen near Sitka, an Alaskan city and borough near the state capital of Juneau.
The Coast Guard launched a search mission Sunday evening and, the following day, found the body of one man without a life vest. The boat was found submerged near Low Island, a mile east of Shoals Point on Kruzof Island.
The rescue teams searched an area of 825 square miles for over 20 hours using helicopters and boats, although the waves at the time reached heights of 6 to 11 feet. Despite the efforts of the Coast Guard and its partner agencies, the four missing individuals were not found, and the search was called off at 9:30 p.m. Monday.
The identities of the deceased and the missing persons have not yet been released. Kingfisher Charters provides all-inclusive fishing packages and guided trips on 30-foot power boats that accommodate up to six anglers.
The tragedy of the sunken charter boat in Alaska serves as a reminder of the dangers of the sea. The Coast Guard and other agencies worked hard to try and locate the missing individuals, but to no avail. Our hearts go out to the loved ones of those affected during this challenging time.