Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered Hunter College to remove a job listing for a Palestinian studies professor over concerns the class will be used to foment anti-Israel rhetoric and antisemitism.

Her office said she also ordered the City University of New York system, to which the upper east side institution belongs, “to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom,” the New York Post reported.

The job listing stated: “We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine, including but not limited to, settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality.”

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