Police At CUNY: We’re Not Prepared For Anti-Semitic Protests

At the City University of New York (CUNY), where anti-Israel agitators took over the school’s Graduate Center Library in May, university police say they are too understaffed to protect Jewish students this fall.

“The university is going into this under fire – they have no idea what’s going to happen. There’s no preparation,” a CUNY officer told the New York Post, adding, “There have been no meetings about any of this. Ever since the encampment ended, everyone went on vacation. There’s no ‘Let’s prepare for September.’”

“It’s going to be bad. Our numbers just aren’t there,” an officer acknowledged. “If there’s a spontaneous protest that we don’t have any knowledge of, we’re going to be outnumbered – just by the sheer number of students enrolled, we’re outnumbered. There’s no retention anymore with our police,” the officer said. “Our academy class used to be 100-to-150. We’ve got five now – five in the academy class. That’s how bad it got.”

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“[The] pay is so low for these guys and they’re paying millions for contractors to be here with no training, no background,” he continued.  “They’re not concerned about the students and the staff. They’re worried about their image and making sure the students express their freedom of speech.”

As CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax noted in the New York Post in April 2023, six months before the Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, CUNY has a recent history of anti-Semitism. His organization, Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, released a report titled “How CUNY Became the Most Systemically Antisemitic U.S. University in Just Two Years.”

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In May, a branch of CUNY, Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College, canceled an event marking Israel’s Memorial Day, citing security concerns.

“Sadly, we expect anti-Israel activity will re-emerge at some colleges and universities as the fall semester begins,” the American Jewish Committee told Campus Reform. “This semester, the response needs to be different.”

Julia Jassey, CEO of Jewish on Campus, added, “We haven’t seen much from universities yet. We haven’t seen many that are proactive. We had hoped that heading into the school year that universities would be better prepared than last year.”