The Trump administration filed federal court papers backing a Jewish professor who claimed she was subjected to a hostile work environment fueled by antisemitic, Israel-bashing protests at CUNY’s Hunter College. CUNY-Hunter filed a motion to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court by Leah Garrett, chair of the Jewish Studies Center, saying the vitriol was protected by free speech under the First Amendment. But the US Department of Justice headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi intervened in the case Monday, filing a “statement of interest” stressing the importance of abiding by the federal civil rights law that...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
