An adjunct professor at Brooklyn College was fired after questions were raised about his syllabus and academic papers, which were said to be anti-Israel.
Kristofer Petersen-Overton, a doctoral student at CUNY’s Graduate Center, was fired from teaching Jan. 26.
Jeremy Thompson, a spokesman for Brooklyn College, told the New York Post that Petersen-Overton was removed from the classroom because he was not “sufficiently qualified,” since he is “very early on in his doctoral studies.”
Just days before Petersen-Overton was fired, New York state Assembyman Dov Hikind had sent a letter to the college’s president expressing concern about the student.
Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat, told the Post that a student had contacted him about the class syllabus, which included 50 books all blaming Israel for the problems in the Middle East.
Several of Petersen-Overton’s academic papers reportedly attempt to understand suicide bombers. Several papers have quoted Petersen-Overton as saying that he does not condone suicide bombing.
