CCSF union president violated policies in antisemitic rant, investigation finds

A union president at City College of San Francisco who was recorded calling a Jewish instructor a “colonizer” and mocking her last name in an expletive-laden rant at a trustees meeting last spring violated campus policies against harassment and discrimination, an independent investigator hired by the school has found.

“I’m very pleased that the independent investigation found in my favor and confirmed what I experienced,” said Bornstein, who has not returned to campus and has been teaching remotely since the incident on May 29. “At the same time, it is deeply upsetting to have been the target of an antisemitic verbal attack in a professional setting.”

The investigation found that Salazar Colon’s conduct violated the school’s anti-discrimination and harassment policies, as well as its workplace violence policy.The findings became final Tuesday, 45 days after the Board of Trustees took no action on an appeal filed Feb. 5 by Salazar Colon.

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The investigation found that “the term ‘colonizer’ is offensive to Jewish people because it (1) holds all Jewish people accountable for the actions of the state of Israel; and (2) implies Jewish people have no right to exist in a specific area,” according to the findings reviewed by the Chronicle.