'As a member of the Council observed, 'Zionist' now operates as a proxy for Jew, and the city's posture hands the perpetrator an exit,' the letter states.
What began in Middle Eastern Studies has spread across the humanities and social sciences and is now reaching elementary, middle and high schools, where anti-Jewish and anti-Israel indoctrination is taking root.
Owens accused NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani of being an Israeli plant, called Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel a liar, and claimed Israel secretly controls the stories.
'It is never acceptable to make light of such acts, especially while Hamas still holds Israeli hostages’ bodies more than two years after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.'