PSC/CUNY

With CUNY being targeted by the new McCarthyism sweeping U.S. college campuses, members of @psccuny rallied in City Hall Park Monday. Their rally came one day before the head of CUNY was to testify at a congressional hearing on alleged campus anti-semitism. 📽️ Nina Berman

Congratulations to newly elected NYC Central Labor Council President Brendan Griffith! We're excited to continue the work of making a better life for the working people of New York. NY is a Union Town! #Solidarity #1U

We reject the false premise of this hearing and the eight before it: campus activism in support of the Palestinian people is not antisemitism and is not criminal. #HandsOffHigherEd nydailynews.com/2025/07/18/con…

The rights of immigrants, people of color, and transgender people are under all-out assault— we’re joining labor and community allies to FIGHT BACK! #GoodTroubleLivesOn

PSC members are gathering with thousands of fellow New Yorkers to commemorate the legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis and to resist the most brazen attack on civil rights in generations. #GoodTroubleLivesOn

We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations. On July 17th, five yrs since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are mobilizing to ensure #GoodTroubleLivesOn! Meet us at 5PM in front of the NY County Supreme Court psc-cuny.org/calendar/good-…

"Berkeley faculty resent the intimidation tactics being conducted by the Federal government against our University. Our University stands strongly against Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia." -- Paul Fine, Co-Chair, Berkeley Faculty Association - BFA #HandsOffHigherEd

"The Republican party has never cared about any marginalized group - Jewish or otherwise. They have pretended to care as a pretext for weakening public institutions & funneling money to the one minority they care about: the 1%." -- State Senator @JabariBrisport #HandsOffHigherEd

"The Committee is once again using these hearings as a thinly-veiled platform to continue their political attack on higher education, libraries, and academic freedom." -- Katie Rodger, President of the @UCAFT #HandsOffHigherEd

“We are witnessing the Trump Administration’s appalling weaponization of antisemitism to attack one of New York’s pillars of public higher education." -- @NYCComptroller @bradlander #HandsOffHigherEd

“The MAGA Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee got their facts wrong today in their attempt to smear @CUNY and our union as antisemitic." Full statement: psc-cuny.org/news-events/st…

“We do not accept the false premise that underlies today’s hearing that any campus activism in support of the Palestinian people is antisemitic, if not criminal." -- PSC President James Davis thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/cun…

"This effort by GOP majority in Congress does not truly seek to eradicate antisemitism in our society, but only seeks to achieve viral moments, secure likes and views, while our nation’s students hang in the balance." -- Assembly Member @karinesreyes87 #HandsOffHigherEd

“Good Trouble Lives On in Us" Mass Mobilization - Thur. July 17 PSC members will meet at 5PM to distribute signs in front of the New York County Supreme Court (60 Centre St, New York, NY 10007) before joining the 5:30 rally in Foley Square. RSVP: psc-cuny.org/calendar/good-…

"This is yet another example of hollow theatrics by extremist Republicans whose bad-faith, weaponized investigations do nothing to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students or anyone else." -- @Sen_Gounardes #HandsOffHigherEd @AFTunion @NYSUT @AAUP @CUNYRising @UCAFT

“We reject any effort to intimidate universities into silence & fear, & we won’t let @CUNY — or any institution of higher ed — be used as a political stunt designed to divide our communities.” - @NYSUT President @MelindaJPerson #HandsOffHigherEd @AFTunion @AAUP @CUNYRising @UCAFT

"The real purpose of these show trials is to undermine university autonomy so the federal government can control what faculty research, write, & teach and what students learn and say..." -- @AAUP President @ProfTWolf #HandsOffHigherEd @AFTunion @nysut @CUNYRising @UCAFT

“These hearings are nothing more than an attack on higher education cloaked under the guise of fighting antisemitism." -- @RepJerryNadler #HandsOffHigherEd @AFTunion @nysut @AAUP @CUNYRising @UCAFT

“This hearing is another cynical attempt to use real anxiety about rising antisemitism to ambush university leaders, smear faculty, slash funding, & delegitimize institutions that are essential for a working democracy." PSC President Davis @AFT @NYSUT @AAUP @CUNYRising @UCAFT

"They are trying to weaponize investigations as an excuse to smear and defund public higher education." - @AFT President Randi Weingarten #HandsOffHigherEd @AAUP @NYSUT @UCAFT1966 @CUNYRising