A New York University professor infamous for being caught on camera holding a machete to a reporter’s neck last year was reportedly fired from his latest teaching position for espousing anti-Israel views.
Shereen Rodriguez, who was fired last year from her job at Hunter College in New York City, has been fired again, this time from her most recent job at Cooper Union in Manhattan.
“The Cooper Union has fired me for my social media posts about ‘Zionists’…effective immediately,” Rodriguez, 47, wrote in an email to students on January 23, according to the paper. I wrote. New York Post. Cooper Union Justice in Palestine students shared the email on Instagram the next day.
“This is fascism. You’re all learning about it in real time,” Rodriguez wrote. “Be strong, [stay] Be brave, be defiant, avoid biting your tongue, and drink plenty of water. Pa Lante! ”
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On May 23, 2023, Shereen Rodriguez threatened a New York Post reporter by holding a large machete to his throat in the Bronx. (Robert Miller, NY Post)
“This firing represents a violent escalation in McCarthyist repression aimed at intimidating and punishing those who support a free Palestine, and must be resisted to prevent further normalization and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” This cannot happen,” the student group wrote, calling on supporters to report the incident by email. Dean of the art school.
The paper noted that Rodriguez is no longer listed as an adjunct on Cooper Union’s faculty page, although a university spokesperson declined to comment.
The reason for her latest firing was not immediately clear, but Rodriguez participated in a New York City virtual panel for Palestine early last month, where she spoke about Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in New York. ) was announced after the movement talked about the possibility of a rent strike. Paying rent to a Jewish landlord or a landlord who supports Israel.
Her remarks, which have been widely condemned online as anti-Semitic, included Rodríguez saying, “We could be a Trojan horse, we’re inside an empire, and you’re going to overturn it.” It also included content that explained the idea of being here. As for other people who support Israel, she told panel participants, “Maybe you’re waiting where they go to brunch. Find them, go to their offices, don’t let them sleep. Please.”
In a post on his Instagram account, Rodriguez called former Bronx Mayor Ruben Diaz Jr. a “cockroach” and a “Zionist dog,” according to the paper.
“Jewish students at Cooper Union are very relieved that she has been fired,” said the City University of New York law professor and co-founder of the Student and Equality Department, which advocates for Jewish students on campus. Jeffrey Lux, a lawyer, told the Post. “Her comments were downright mean.”
Shereen Rodriguez walks down the street in the Bronx, New York, on May 25, 2023. (Kevin C. Downs, FOX News Digital)
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“Normally, I would commend the university for taking action against this professor, but in this case, how can we say she did something worse before hiring her? He pointed a knife at me,” Lux told the magazine. “They shouldn’t be praised, they should be ashamed.”
Last May, Rodriguez, then an adjunct professor at Hunter College, was caught on camera abusing students who had set up a pro-life table, claiming they were “provoking” others.
“You’re not educating. This is terrible propaganda,” Rodriguez said in a video shared online by Students for Life of America. “What about anti-trans things next?”
When a New York Post reporter arrived at her apartment for comment on the incident, she was again videotaped, this time holding a knife to the reporter’s neck.
Shereen Rodriguez left the Bronx County Attorney’s Office on October 2, 2023, after being sentenced to 13 months of behavioral therapy for menacing. (Kevin C. Downs, Fox News Digital)
The newspaper reported, citing the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, that she had pleaded guilty to harassment and intimidation in connection with the attack on the reporter. If she completes her treatment program, she will be allowed to withdraw her misdemeanor plea under the terms of her plea agreement and her violation will result in a conditional sentence of her release. become.
Rodriguez was sentenced in October to 13 months of behavioral therapy for menacing.
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Her firing from Cooper Union also came months after pro-Palestinian protesters banged on the windows of the school’s library, where Jewish students were inside.
Rodriguez is also notable for organizing the “f— police” demonstrations in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
