Tony Kushner betrays some naivety about university trustees.
Because one of CUNY’s trustees dislikes what he takes to be Kushner’s stand on Israel, the university has rescinded an honorary degree it was about to confer on him. Background here.
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who has well-established self-control issues, is the trustee who knocked out Kushner.
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Update: Wiesenfeld’s been having quite the purge-party.
Earlier this year, Wiesenfeld and Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind tried to force Brooklyn College to fire an adjunct professor they believed held strongly anti-Israel views. The university initially fired the professor, Kristopher Peterson-Overton, but soon rehired him, saying it believed the criticism by Wiesenfeld and Hikind was politically motivated.