I have some news. As many of you know, shortly after I filed an internal discrimination complaint based on antizionist antisemitism on my campus, CUNY immediately placed me under investigation for doing so. Then, they tortured me for 8 months, refusing to tell me --despite knowing for all of that time-- that the outside firm investigating me had fully exonerated me. Since I learned of my exoneration in a laughably short letter with no summary or information from the report, CUNY has refused to produce the full report, in violation of NYS FOIL laws. One can only wonder what that report says of CUNY investigating someone for filing an antisemitism complaint. CUNY doesn't want me, or you, or anyone, to know. But, "how can we continue to make Prof. Lax's life miserable until he finally leaves or steps down as dept. chair" is still clearly on CUNY's top to-do list. As part of my protest against the main perpetrator of my campus's antisemitism problem-- my then direct supervisor, @CUNYKCCPRES, I resigned from her Personnel & Budget Committee, consistent with my absolute right to do so under CUNY Bylaws. To my knowledge, I was the first and only person to ever resign from my campus's esteemed "P & B" committee, but I was very grateful for a principled colleague who thereafter resigned in solidarity with me. I resigned because I did not wish to serve under the committee's antisemitic chair, President Claudia Schrader (who is now interim President of CUNY's York College). This week, because of what I did, CUNY has announced plans to change bylaws that have stood for some 60 years. It proclaimed its plan to prohibit department chairs from resigning from the College P & B committee, for the first time in its history. Some on my campus have called me privately with sympathy, calling it "the Jeff Lax rule." The rule forces participation on a committee that has been voluntary for department chairs for 60 years. It would require even a department chair who was sexually assaulted by the P & B committee chair (the college president) to continue to serve under that perpetrator. It would, as with me, require a department chair with fully substantiated discrimination claims against the P & B committee chair (as I have by the EEOC against President Schrader) to continue to serve under that discriminatory, antisemitic chair. It is outrageous, petty, and clearly directed at me in retaliation for the "crime" of speaking out about antisemites leading our campuses and about widespread antisemitism on our campuses. I don't know how my story will end, and as a man with a family that I love dearly, that really scares me. But it is clear that CUNY is intent on doing everything it can to make things continue to be AND end very badly for me. Seeing other universities now beginning to take this same vicious and illegal approach, such as Columbia doing so to the courageous @ShaiDavidai, only strengthens my resolve to continue to fight what is happening on our campuses.

Today marks 4 weeks that @x has locked S.A.F.E. Campus out of our @_SAFECAMPUS account (while continuing to bill us for premium services we have no access to) and without responding to our appeal. Please read and please help us: What did we do "wrong"? @_SAFECAMPUS shared an already widespread, public video of Fatima Mohammed's PUBLIC speech, recorded and shared by her own group, in a PUBLIC space, the location of which we did not know or share, now was it relevant since she shared the video herself and the event was in the PAST when we shared it. It got traction. Jewish hate group @stopzionisthate and its hundreds of thousands of followers, targeted us by having thousands of their followers file false complaints against us with @x that we "doxxed" Mohammed. An absolute lie. @canarymission recently exposed @stopzionisthate and their antisemitic actions. The group publicly boasts of getting Zionist Jews fired from jobs and Jewish advocacy groups banned from social media. Their sheer numbers make them very effective. We can also reveal that the hate group and/or its followers signed up our "Tips" email account for thousands of spam email subscriptions so that real antisemitism complaints cannot be found in our inbox because we have to spend hours and hours a day deleting spam and trying to unsubscribe from the overwhelming spam emails they have signed us up to receive. We need your help. If you, or anyone you know, can help us get back on @x and put an end to what @stopzionisthate is doing, we would be forever grateful and it would be a tremendous service to all Jewish groups involved in the movement to eradicate antisemitism.

Such a great and principled man. Should be the next Senator for NYS. It's incredible to see Rep. Torres stand up for the Jewish people in a way @SenSchumer abandoned long ago.

If George Santos can be (and should have been) removed from Congress, Ilhan Omar clearly should be, too. This, like so many things she says, is beyond scary.