Queens College ‘cleans house’ of Jewish accounting professors: Lawsuit

Queens College purged its accounting department of Jewish adjunct professors after “antisemitic hate speech and violence” erupted on campus following the Hamas terror attack on Israel, according to a lawsuit.

Adjunct accounting professor Helen Schwalb says the City University of New York school declined to reappoint her in May 2023 — along with five Jewish colleagues — as part of an effort to “clean house of its Jewish staff,” she claimed in court papers.

The school “kept younger, non-Jewish educators with lower performance ratings,” Schwalb, 66, contended.

Queens College has been accused of failing to reappoint its Jewish adjunct accounting professors. J.C. Rice

“The only remaining Jews in the [accounting] department are those with tenure who are in their 70s and 80s and will likely retire soon,” she said in the Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.

Schwalb, of Rockland County, taught two or three classes each semester as well as summer classes at the school since 2012 and had high performance ratings, she said.

The school claimed there was a shortage of enrollment and budget issues, but Schwalb said in court papers the two classes she was slated to teach were fully enrolled and given to other, less qualified educators.

Queens College has been accused of “repeatedly” failing to stop a “barrage of antisemitic hate speech and violence that emerged on campus since the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israelis by Hamas,” she said in the litigation.

Enrollment in the school’s accounting department is down 39% between 2020 and 2024, the school told The Post, with an 18% drop between 2022 and 2023. Queens College declined comment on the lawsuit.