A far-left activist professor has been fired from his teaching position for the third time in less than a year, citing a series of extreme actions. This time, the reason was that he made comments about “Zionists” that made Jewish students uncomfortable.
Shereen Rodriguez first made headlines In May 2023, she hurled expletives at pro-life students. destroyed At the time, she mounted an anti-abortion exhibit at Hunter College in Manhattan, where she worked as an adjunct professor.
Professor goes berserk: Pro-abortion professor Shereen Rodriguez abuses pro-abortion students and destroys a table at Hunter College. pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK
— Student for Life of America | Pro-Life Gene (@StudentsforLife) May 17, 2023
The 47-year-old educator was disciplined by the taxpayer-funded CUNY (City University of New York), but not disciplined. fired Until he threatened a reporter with a machete when he asked a question about the incident.
Shocking video taken by new york post Rodriguez is shown holding a large knife to the throat of a reporter who shows up at his New York City apartment to ask questions about pro-abortion freaks.
“Get out of my door or I’ll cut you to pieces with this machete!” she screamed.
Shereen Rodriguez claims she was fired as an instructor @collaborator Post about “Zionist”.I’m curious how he got hired at No. 1 after Rodriguez was fired. @HunterCollege & @SVA_News After threatening him, he chased the reporter with a machete. pic.twitter.com/0xhvFNuimb
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) January 30, 2024
Dashboard camera footage further shows the disgraced professor chasing the perpetrator. postAfter reporters and cameramen left her building, she continued to chase the machete-wielding men and kicked one of them.
Rodriguez was eventually fired from Hunter College and the City University of New York School of Visual Arts.
She pleaded guilty to harassment and intimidation, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
“Under the terms of her conditional plea agreement, she will be required to complete a treatment program and, if successful, will be able to withdraw her misdemeanor plea and be sentenced to conditional release on the violation.” Stated. post report.
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However, she soon got another job at Cooper Union, a private college of arts and sciences in lower Manhattan.
Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine share On January 23, shortly after spring semester sculpture classes began, an email from Rodriguez broke the news that she had been fired again.
“Cooper Union fired me because I posted on social media about ‘Zionists,'” the embattled educator wrote in a memo to students.
“This is fascism,” she added. “You’re all learning about it in real time.”
This was announced by a Cooper Union spokesperson. post Although she could not comment on personnel matters, the outlet confirmed that Rodriguez had been removed from the university’s faculty page.
It’s unclear what specific comments Rodriguez made that got her fired, but the City University of New York’s Jewish student representative called them “despicable.”
“Jewish students at Cooper Union are extremely relieved that she has been fired,” said Jeffrey Lux, a law professor at the State University of New York and co-founder of NYU’s School of Student Equity. Told. defender “We oppose the systematic exclusion and discrimination against Zionists, Observationalists, and ostensible Jews.”
“What she said was really despicable,” he said at the New York City Commission on Palestine in January, when Rodriguez encouraged the use of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against landowners and companies with ties to Israel. mentioned and said.
Yesterday I attended the CUNY 4 Palestine teach-in, “Radical Solidarity and Organic Connections: The Liberation Struggles of Palestinians, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Filipinos.”
Professor Shereen Rodriguez brandished a machete. @nypost The reporter was also one of the speakers. pic.twitter.com/1grKaKAxQ7
— Stu (@thestustustudio) January 16, 2024
Critics said she made inflammatory statements and spouted anti-Semitic tropes.
“Normally, I would say I commend the university for taking action against this professor, but how can I say that in this case?” Lux continued. “She did worse things before she was hired, namely, she held a knife to a reporter’s neck. They should not be celebrated, they should be ashamed of themselves.”
The school’s pro-Palestinian student group condemned the professor’s dismissal, saying it was a “severe escalation of repression” and “must be resisted.”
Rodriguez’s latest firing comes just months after Jewish Cooper Union students were fired. be forced to barricade To escape from pro-Palestinian demonstrators, he takes shelter in the library of an elite university.
Jewish students at Cooper Union are in the library as protesters bang on the door.
Please turn on the audio and listen. pic.twitter.com/pwYRo5KA9X
— Yashar Ali🐘 (@yashar) October 25, 2023
