New York professor who threatened reporter with a machete fired after anti-Semitic rants

Shellyne Rodriguez, a professor at Cooper Union in Manhattan,  was caught holding a machete to the neck of a reporter last year. The video made it to the mainstream media as Rodriguez appeared to act in a crazy violent way.

She has reportedly been fired from her latest teaching gig due to her anti-Semitic views.

But this isn't Rodriguez's first canning. Last year when she worked at Hunter College, in New York City, she had been terminated for similar craziness.

"Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists’… effective immediately," Rodriguez, 47, wrote in a Jan. 23 email to students, according to the New York Post. Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine shared the email on Instagram the next day.

"This is fascism. Ya’ll are learning about it in real time," Rodriguez wrote. "Stay strong, [stay] brave, stay defiant, don’t bite your tongue, and drink plenty of water! Pa-lante!"

She obviously thought that the October 7 massacre was okay to do to those, you know, Jews.

"This firing represents an intense escalation of McCarthyist repression meant to intimidate and punish those in support of a Free Palestine, and must be resisted to prevent its further normalization and the ongoing genocide in Gaza," the student group wrote, calling on followers to email the art school dean.

No actually the firing represents decent people unwilling to accept their college age kids being taught to hate any group of people simply for their inherent characteristics. Dolt.

According to the Post, the college spokesperson declined to speak as a spokesperson, but the outlet noted Rodriguez is no longer listed on the Cooper Union faculty page.

The reasoning for her latest termination was not immediately clear but came after Rodriguez participated earlier last month in a CUNY for Palestine virtual panel in which she spoke about the possibility of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement rent strike in New York involving not making rent payments to Jewish landlords or landlords who support Israel, which is disgusting and illegal.

Her remarks were widely condemned online as antisemitic. They included the so called professor explaining, "the idea that we could be a Trojan horse, that we are inside empire, and you’re here to upend it." Regarding others who support Israel and condemn terrorism, she went "Maxine Waters and told those on the panel, "You probably wait tables where they go to brunch. Find them, go to their offices, don’t let them sleep." 

According to the Post, the anti-Semite Rodriguez also blasted former Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. as a "roach" and "Zionist lapdog" on her Instagram account.

"Jewish students at Cooper Union are very relieved that they fired her," Jeffrey Lax, a CUNY law professor and co-founder of Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, which advocates for Jewish students on campus, told the Post. "Her comments were really despicable."

"Normally, I would say I commend the university for taking action against this professor but in this case, how can I possibly say that she did something far worse before they hired her? I mean, she held a knife to a reporter’s neck," Lax told the outlet. "They’re not to be commended, they should be ashamed of themselves."

Her termination from Cooper Union also comes months after pro-Palestinian protesters at the school banged on the windows of the school library while Jewish students had locked themselves inside.

The hateful professor also notably organized "f*** police" demonstrations in 2020 after the death of the thug George Floyd in Minneapolis. 

Rodrigues actually should be in jail and then be required to be in intense psychotherapy. A year in Israel might also clear her thinking.

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