US Professor Fired Over Anti-Israel Rants Days After Attacking Reporter

The 47-year-old Shellyne Rodriguez in an email wrote, "Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about 'Zionists'".

A New York City professor who was caught on camera holding a machete to a reporter's neck has been fired for anti-Israel rants. The 47-year-old Shellyne Rodriguez in an email wrote, "Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about 'Zionists'".

Her January 23 email was shared the next day on Instagram by the Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine.

"This is fascism," she wrote. "Y'all are learning about it in real-time."