CUNY Waves The Palestinian Flag

CUNY is not going to stop at honoring anti-Israel playwright Tony Kushner--now CUNY has announced that it will fly the Palestinian Arab flag at commencement ceremonies.

Word of this comes from Alana Goodman, who spoke to a spokesperson from the university on why the Palestinian flag is being flown at City College:

“The City College flies all of the flags that are flown at the United Nations,” the Vice President for Communications Mary Lou Edmondson told me. “It has nothing to do with foreign policy.”

That excuse, however, doesn't even get off the ground--for one simple reason:

But there’s one problem—the United Nations doesn’t fly the Palestinian flag. It only flies the flags of its 192 member states.

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