The daughter of the New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan – a Democrat titan in American politics – says if City College of New York (CCNY) won’t work to curb pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic demonstrations, they should remove her father’s name from the school’s Moynihan Center.
Maura Moynihan, writing in the NY Post, argues the CCNY administration’s toleration of “…dangerous anti-American and antisemitic ideologies is capitulation to and collusion with those ideologies, which Amb. Moynihan and his wife Liz would find abhorrent and shameful.”
“I sent several emails to the directors of CCNY’s new Moynihan Center at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership requesting a public statement condemning this dangerous hate speech,” Moynihan wrote regarding the pro-Hamas and anti-semitic demonstrations on campus, adding: “Not a single CCNY official replied.”
During his time, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an outspoken opponent of anti-Semitism. In 1975, while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Moynihan vociferously opposed the organization’s adoption of the Resolution 3379 which declared Zionism a form of racism. “[The United States] does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act,” Moynihan said at the U.N. General Assembly.
Prior to his election to the United States Senate, Moynihan served in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations – early on demonstrating his cross-partisan appeal. In the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a fierce advocate for New Yorkers – often using earmarks to ensure federal dollars flowed back to the state. When Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) took exception with an earmark Moynihan had inserted in the Federal Highway Bill, it was reported Moynihan slugged Bond on the Senate floor.
