She already has a machete, but now she has an axe.
Shereen Rodriguez, the crazed professor who was caught on camera holding a knife to the neck of a Post reporter in May, was fired from her latest teaching job at Cooper Union over an anti-Israel screed. The Post found out.
“Cooper Union fired me because I posted on social media about ‘Zionists,’” Rodriguez, 47, wrote in an email to students a week after the spring semester began.
Her Jan. 23 email was shared on Instagram the next day by the Cooper Union of Students for Justice in Palestine.
“This is fascism,” she wrote. “You’re all learning about it in real time.”
Rodriguez said in a post on his Instagram that he was fired for “public comments about ‘Zionists.'”
A university spokeswoman said the university does not comment on personnel matters, but Rodriguez is not listed as part-time on Cooper Union’s faculty page.
It is not clear which posts or comments got her canned, but Rodriguez joined the New York City Palestine Committee in January and encouraged protesting landowners and businessmen with ties to Israel. Critics said she spouted her anti-Semitic tropes.
Rodriguez posted on Instagram a flyer advertising a pro-Israel event that had been edited to hide a cockroach, according to a screenshot obtained by the newspaper.
One of the participants at the event was former Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. “Look, this filthy cockroach former Bronx Mayor Ruben Diaz Jr. is a Zionist pet dog,” she wrote in the caption.
A pro-Palestinian student group condemned her dismissal, calling it a “severe escalation of repression” and “must be resisted.”
“Cooper Union has unjustly fired a valuable educator who is essential to our community and to the academic success of our students,” the group said in a statement. In a letter to the government defending the
Others found her to be a good exterminator.
“Jewish students at Cooper Union are very relieved that she has been fired,” said a law professor at the State University of New York and a student advocate for Jewish students who are discriminated against and harassed on campus. said Jeffrey Lux, co-founder of the Faculty of Equality. “Her comments were really despicable,” he said, referring to the City University of New York committee.
“Normally, I would applaud the university for taking action against this professor, but in this case, how can we say she did anything worse before hiring her? I mean, she held the knife to the reporter’s neck.” ,” Lux said. “They shouldn’t be praised, they should be ashamed.”
The shooting comes nearly three months after Jewish Cooper Union students were forced to barricade themselves in the elite university’s library as pro-Palestinian protesters breached security and banged on the building’s doors. It was done later.
Rodriguez made headlines in May 2023 when she berated a group of pro-life students distributing information about abortion at Hunter College, State University of New York, where she was teaching art at the time.
When the Post visited Rodriguez at her Bronx apartment for comment, she flipped out.
“Keep that son of a bitch out my door or I’ll chop you up with this machete!” she yelled before addressing the scribe. She then followed reporters and photographers into the street, brandishing her gun wildly. The unstoppable assault was captured on video.
Mr. Hunter fired her the same day. Rodriguez also taught some classes at the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea, but she was not teaching there at the time of the incident.
After a review, she was also fired there.
She pleaded guilty to harassment and intimidation in the attack on the reporter, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. Under the terms of her conditional plea agreement, she will be required to complete her treatment program and, if successful, will be able to withdraw her misdemeanor plea and be sentenced to conditional release on the violation, according to the DA’s office. It is said that it will be lowered.
Rodriguez began teaching sculpture classes at Cooper Union at the beginning of the fall semester in September, just four months after the incident. according to schedule Graduated from Cooper Union School of Art.
Rodriguez helped organize the “FK Police” protests that led to mass arrests in 2020, the Post reported at the time.
Rodriguez did not respond to messages seeking comment.
