CUNY Professor Jeffery Lax, the Legal Battle on Antizionism

In this compelling episode of The Jewish World, host Rabbi Elchanan Poupko sits down with Professor Jeffrey Lax, a distinguished law professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and founder of Students, Alumni, and Faculty for Equality (SAFE) on Campus. Together, they explore the high-stakes legal and cultural battles surrounding antizionism and antisemitism on American university campuses.Professor Lax brings a unique perspective as both a legal scholar and a passionate Zionist advocate. With over two decades of experience teaching law and confronting discrimination law in practice, he has been at the forefront of legal challenges to what he describes as systemic antisemitism and anti-Israel activism at CUNY. Lax and colleagues have taken bold legal action against compulsory union representation they argue forces Zionist Jews to be aligned with leadership that promotes anti-Israel resolutions — a case that has drawn attention up to the U.S. Supreme Court level.