{"id":234036,"date":"2026-05-16T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234036\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:28:11","slug":"new-school-quietly-hires-controversial-professor-who-led-anti-israel-campus-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234036\/","title":{"rendered":"New School quietly hires controversial professor who led anti-Israel campus protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woke New School claimed it wanted its Jewish students to feel safe, but the school recently hired a professor who was a CUNY ringleader of violent anti-Israel campus protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corinna Mullin, a political science professor specializing in anticolonialism and critical of Western culture, was among the leaders of\u00a0an April 2024 encampment<\/a>\u00a0at the City College of New York\u2019s campus in Harlem.\u00a0 Mullin was arrested for her role in the protest, which led to the science building catching fire, resulting in $3 million\u00a0in damages,\u00a0school officials said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She became known as one of the \u201cfired four\u201d \u2014 a group of CUNY adjunct professors who alleged they were terminated in the summer 2025 for their support of Palestine in the lead-up to a Trump administration congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses. <\/p>\n

Mullin was among the leaders of\u00a0an April 2024 encampment\u00a0at the City College of New York\u2019s campus in Harlem. newschool.edu<\/p>\n

Mullin and two others were reinstated in January, according to Higher Ed Labor United<\/a>, but it\u2019s unclear if she taught any classes at CUNY this spring semester. Her name didn\u2019t appear on CUNY faculty pages.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, records show Mullin found a home at The New School, the first university in the country to have its student senate vote to sanction its Hillel chapter<\/a> this month \u2014 a move school officials insisted the group did not have the authority to do.<\/p>\n

Mullin began teaching a course called \u201cMiddle East in the World\u201d in Fall 2025 and is scheduled to teach \u201cDecolonizing International Law\u201d in September.<\/p>\n

Mullin has called Arab countries normalizing ties with Israel \u201chigh treason\u201d \u2014 and has worked with the Samidoun network, a sham charity that acts as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization, according to the State Department. She didn\u2019t reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The university didn\u2019t answer The Post\u2019s questions about Mullin\u2019s hiring, but it continued to insist every student, regardless of background, was \u201cwelcome, valued and respected\u201d at New School and that the move to sanction Hillel was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The student senate claimed the issue stemmed from Hillel\u2019s participation in trips to Israel, which it does not fund. RSO Compliance Committee<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking carefully at how this situation unfolded, what further actions the university needs to take,\u201d a spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

The student senate voted May 1 to end funding for Hillel, claiming its participation in trips that sent students to volunteer on military bases in Israel\u00a0tied it to \u201cgrave violations of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillel said targeting its apolitical organization amounted to attacking Jewish identity on campus, and that the Israel trips were funded by private donations, not through student fees. <\/p>\n

The student senate voted May 1 to end funding for Hillel \u2013 a move the administration said it didn\u2019t have the right to do. Instagram\/hillelatbaruch<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that student money is somehow funding foreign military operations is simply incorrect,\u201d said Michael Valdes<\/a>, a graduating MFA student and Hillel member, who served on the student senate last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are entitled to their opinion about Israel, the war and international politics. But political disagreement cannot become the justification for excluding a student club from campus life.\u201d <\/p>\n

Only a small source of Hillel\u2019s funding came from the student fees distributed by the student senate, and the organization has not had to cancel any events.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to be at this campus,\u201d said Valdes in an address to the student senate Friday.<\/p>\n

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