Governor Hochul Warns NY Colleges to Combat Antisemitism
- ‘Moral lapses’ won’t be tolerated in New York, Hochul wrote
- Letter follows congressional hearing from Harvard, Penn, MIT
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul called on the state’s colleges to take action against all antisemitism on campus after the presidents of Harvard University and two other elite US schools faced widespread criticism for failing to broadly condemn calls for the genocide of Jewish people.
Failure to address antisemitism “would constitute a violation of New York State Human Rights Law as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Hochul said in a letter to New York state college presidents. She said schools that don’t comply could be “deemed ineligible” to receive state and federal money.