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CUNY Faces Backlash Over Firing Pro-Palestine Advocates

7/12/2025

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CUNY has taken a hardline stance against pro-Palestine advocates, resulting in the firing of four adjunct professors and the suspension of student Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik. The Professional Staff Congress decries this as an ideological purge, warning that such actions jeopardize free speech and academic freedom, igniting a rallying cry against the looming threat of "New McCarthyism."

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CUNY has taken a hardline stance against pro-Palestine advocates, resulting in the firing of four adjunct professors and the suspension of student Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik. The Professional Staff Congress decries this as an ideological purge, warning that such actions jeopardize free speech and academic freedom, igniting a rallying cry against the looming threat of "New McCarthyism."