Gov. Hochul signs bill providing $51M to combat, investigate hate crimes on NY campuses

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into a law a new measure Tuesday that forces any college or university that receives funding from Albany to investigate and publicize campus hate crime statistics online.

The bill was written by a pair of Queens Democrats after Queens College was besieged by a number of antisemitic and racially charged incidents last year.on a public bulletin board on the anniversary of the Capitol riots.to refer to the school’s Asian-American president before a man showed up to the campus and berated students with profane antisemitic rhetoric over a bullhorn on multiple occasions.

“I want every single college to have to adopt and implement these programs so every single student when they leave the security of their home, feels just as secureThe measure was signed into law at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan’s Battery Park, at a ceremony that was attended by 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Toby Levy.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Hate Crime Protection bill during a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan on July 11, 2023.The bill requires colleges and universities that receive state funding to investigate and publicize campus hate crime statistics online.The bill comes after a number of racist and antisemitic incidents at Queens College in the last year.

A Queens College official also used a racial slur to refer to the school’s Asian-American president Frank H. Wu.The governor also noted that New York — the most Jewish state in the US by far — had seen antisemitic hate crimes double in recent years, with one occurring every 33 hours, on average.“Last year we hit numbers we’ve not seen in decades, and I’m not proud to say it was the highest number in the nation,” the Democrat continued.

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