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Also praised Iran’s ‘strong gender inclusion’ and ‘prioritization of human life’
A City University of New York pro-Palestinian professor who a year ago screamed “LEAVE!” at pro-Israel counter-demonstrators during a rally in which in she participated recently praised the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps … and called for the “U.S. empire” to be brought down “by any means necessary.”
Corinna Mullin, who also teaches at The New School, told an audience at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting last Wednesday that “a state like Iran needs to divert a significant portion of its surplus into military industrialization, so it can defend its workers,” the New York Post reports.
Mullin claimed the Iranian regime “is working on behalf of the working class.
“We can talk about the Epstein class and the depravity of the ruling class today, which knows no limits on violence. So, I’m sorry, I defend the IRGC,” she said. “I defend the incredible role the Iranian state has done to defend the working class.”
Mullin also praised Iran for its “strong gender inclusion” and “prioritization of human life.”
Mullin was fired by CUNY in 2024 after “leading” a pro-Palestinian encampment, but following pushback was reinstated earlier this year.
Her research deals with “US imperialism, capitalism, unequal exchange, security dependency, border imperialism, international fascism, anti/decolonial theory and praxis, colonial legacies, [and] knowledge production.”
‼️‼️Nyc 34th and 5th. We don’t want no Zionists here. Jews prevented from walking. Jews don’t say you didn’t see it coming. pic.twitter.com/2XWnC4vhtc
— Jabotinsky Jews (@Betar_USA) June 5, 2025
According to Mondoweiss, Mullin is affiliated with the group CUNY4Palestine and her “activism and academic concentration lend to the incorporation of Palestinian history and politics in her university classrooms.”
Last year she complained that “external Zionist, far-right organizations” such as Canary Mission were “targeting” her and other academics and students “for organizing in solidarity with Palestine.”
According to Academia, Mullin’s articles and book chapters include “Zionism, Imperialism, and the Struggle Against Global Fascism: Palestine as the ‘Hornet’s Nest’ of US Empire,” “Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below: Palestine and the BDS Movement,” and “We charge genocide: Racist state violence is a labor issue.”
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