Israeli lobbyists target young lawyer for highlighting oppression in Palestine

NEW YORK – Israeli lobbying groups are targeting young law graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed, who recently gave a speech in support of Palestine.

These groups have called on the City University of New York (CUNY) to deny her admission to the bar after she passed the entrance exam.

These groups, which include a City Council member, have accused Mohammed of lacking “character and fitness.”

In a letter to the New York Bar Association on Wednesday, Council member Inna Vernikov called for Mohammed’s license to be revoked, if she has passed the test.

“I ask that should she pass the New York bar, her admission be denied,” Vernikov said.

The Zionist Organization of America also called on the courts to revoke Fatima Mohammed’s license to practice law.

On May 12, Mohammed gave a commencement speech to her fellow students at the City College of New York School of Law.

She had been selected by her fellow students to give the speech.

She emphasized the struggle against oppression in all its forms, from New York police brutality to Israeli apartheid and colonialism.

More than 400 CUNY Law alumni and 200 faculty members have expressed solidarity with her.

The CUNY Board of Trustees had called her commencement speech “hate speech.”

She also spoke out against the treatment of Palestinian political prisoners in American jails.

New York Mayor Eric Adams, who spoke before Mohammed at the graduation ceremony, said the law graduate gave a “vile anti-American and anti-Israel speech that incited hatred.”