The New School has come under renewed criticism after retaining a faculty member accused of helping lead disruptive anti-Israel campus protests, despite the university publicly insisting it is committed to protecting Jewish students.

Corinna Mullin, a political science professor whose work focuses on anticolonialism and criticism of Western institutions, was identified as one of the organizers behind the April 2024 anti-Israel encampment at City College of New York in Harlem.

According to school officials, Mullin was arrested in connection with the protest, which culminated in a fire inside the science building that caused roughly $3 million in damage.

Mullin later became part of a group dubbed the “fired four” — adjunct professors at CUNY who claimed they were dismissed during the summer of 2025 because of their pro-Palestinian activism ahead of a congressional hearing by the Trump administration examining antisemitism on college campuses.

Higher Ed Labor United announced that Mullin and two other professors were reinstated in January, although it remains unclear whether she taught at CUNY during the spring semester, as her name did not appear on faculty listings.

The controversy comes as CUNY recently became the first university in the country whose student senate voted to sanction its Hillel chapter, though university officials later stated the senate lacked authority to take such action.

Mullin previously taught a Fall 2025 course titled “Middle East in the World” and is currently scheduled to teach “Decolonizing International Law” this coming September.

The NY Post reported that Mullin has referred to Arab governments normalizing relations with Israel as committing “high treason.”

The paper also reported that she worked with the Samidoun network, which the State Department has described as a front organization for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization.

Mullin did not respond to requests for comment, according to the NY Post.

Meanwhile, New School administrators continued defending the campus climate, insisting all students remain “welcome, valued and respected,” while also condemning the student senate’s anti-Hillel vote as unacceptable.

“We are looking carefully at how this situation unfolded, what further actions the university needs to take,” a university spokesperson told the NY Post.

The student senate voted on May 1 to revoke funding for Hillel, arguing that the Jewish student organization’s involvement in Israel trips connected it to “grave violations of international law.”

Hillel rejected the accusation, saying the organization itself is apolitical and emphasizing that the Israel trips in question were financed through private donations rather than student activity fees.

“The idea that student money is somehow funding foreign military operations is simply incorrect,” graduating MFA student and Hillel member Michael Valdes told the NY Post.

“People are entitled to their opinion about Israel, the war and international politics. But political disagreement cannot become the justification for excluding a student club from campus life.”

Only a small portion of Hillel’s funding reportedly comes from student senate allocations, and the organization has not canceled any programming following the vote.

“We will continue to be at this campus,” Valdes said Friday during remarks to the student senate.