New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered CUNY to remove a Hunter College posting for a "Palestinian Studies" professorship that would have focused on topics like "apartheid" and "genocide."

Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the City University of New York to immediately shut down a “Palestinian Studies” professorship posting at Hunter College that critics argued promotes hateful instruction that demonizes Israel.

The language in the listing included terms — like “settler colonialism,” “apartheid” and “genocide” — that Jewish groups said were offensive when applied to Israel.

The faculty union at the City University of New York objected to Gov. Hochul’s order to interrupt the hiring process for a Palestinian Studies professor, as protesters planned to confront

The social science and art and humanities job postings were removed from the public university system's website.

New York’s governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure “antisemitic theories” would not be taught. The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian “who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to settler-colonialism,

System leaders took down a job posting for a Palestinian studies professor at Governor Hochul’s insistence. Faculty say it’s an unprecedented breach of academic autonomy.