Activists at CUNY who despise Israel refused to cooperate with the state’s independent probe into rampant campus antisemitism.
“There are people who thought the deck was stacked [against them]. They hurt their own cause,” said Jonathan Lippman, the widely respected, retired chief judge of the state Court of Appeals who oversaw the sweeping review of the City University of New York’s handling of hate against Jewish people.
The anti-Israel activists who declined to be interviewed expressed concern about any restrictions on their free-speech rights and about being accused of antisemitism.
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That was not the intent, said Lippman, a longtime judge who values fairness and impartiality.