The City University of New York is tapping prominent lawyers to conduct an independent probe into claims of anti-Semitism at a number of its campuses, The Post has learned.
Heading the investigation are Paul Shechtman and Barbara Jones, both partners at the firm Zuckerman Spaeder, sources said.
Shechtman is a former state criminal-justice director and assistant federal prosecutor. Jones is a retired federal district judge and was chief assistant to former Manhattan DA Bob Morgenthau.
CUNY Chancellor James Milliken ordered the probe, and the system will assemble a Campus Climate Task Force to crack down on all forms of bigotry.
The Post last week reported accusations of anti-Jewish hostility at CUNY, laid out in a letter to school brass by the Zionist Organization of America. The ZOA called for CUNY to probe Students for Justice in Palestine, a group it says has engaged in “anti-Semitic and violence-inciting conduct” against Jewish students.