Critics say her controversial views are being supported with public funds.
Corinna Mullin, a political science professor known for outspoken criticism of the United States and Israel and previously arrested in connection with campus protest activity, is scheduled to teach two courses at the City University of New York this fall, The Post has learned.
Mullin, who recently drew backlash after expressing support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during a Democratic Socialists of America event, is set to teach “Politics of the Middle East” at Brooklyn College next semester. According to CUNY’s online course listing, the class covers Arab states, Israel, Iran and Turkey.
She is also listed to teach “Government and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa” at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with topics including the Arab-Israeli conflict, political Islam, political Judaism, petro-politics and U.S. foreign policy in the region.
CUNY law professor and business department chair Jeffrey Lax criticized the decision to put Mullin back on the schedule, calling it “outrageous and unacceptable.”
“This is not academic freedom — it is taxpayer-funded indoctrination,” he said.
“Mullin’s extreme anti-Israel, anti-American views, framed through an anticolonial lens that often justifies terrorism and hostility toward the West, make her fundamentally unfit to shape young minds on the sensitive subject of Middle East politics,” he added.
Some CUNY students have also objected to Mullin’s return to the classroom, arguing the move is inappropriate.
“Mullin’s statements are absurd and detached from reality,” slammed Aidan Herzlinger, a senior at Baruch College.
“The IRGC isn’t fighting for the ‘working class.’ Their goal since 1979 is the destruction of the United States and Israel because the regime’s ideology is anti-western and anti-democracy. Having professors like Mullin on campus creates a system of indoctrination, not education.”
Mullin was fired by CUNY in the summer of 2025 after eight years on the job, for organizing and taking part in an April 2024 pro-Palestinian encampment at the City College of New York’s campus in Harlem where a student fired a flare that sparked a blaze in the science building and resulted in $3 million in damage, according to school officials.
But she fought the decision, helped by her union, and was reinstated in January, though her name didn’t appear on CUNY faculty pages or course schedules until recently.
She’s set to make at least $34,304 for the 2025-2026 school year, according to a copy of the union’s salary grid for adjunct professors obtained by The Post.
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In 2025, Mullin, 51, made $24,232 for the spring semester before she was fired that summer. And in 2024 — the year of her arrest — she pocketed $43,500, according to public records on See Through New York.
The anti-West prof also teaches at The New School, where she’ll be lecturing on “Decolonizing International Law” next fall. Her salary at the private college is undisclosed.
Earlier this month, Mullin clamored to bring down the US empire “by any means necessary” while speaking to more than two-dozen NYC DSA comrades during an “Islamic Revolution Teach In.”
“A state like Iran needs to divert a significant portion of its surplus into military industrialization. . . . So, I’m sorry, I defend the IRGC,” she tearfully proclaimed. “I defend the incredible role the Iranian state has done to defend the working class.
“This is having a huge toll on the capacity of the US empire to impose its will. . . . We need to bring the empire down by any means necessary,” she raged.
In March, at a CUNY Cuba conference in Midtown that devolved into an anti-US hatefest, she was among speakers deriding the “evil empire” as the “number one terrorist in the world” — urging people to “speed up” its demise “in every way possible.”
“The threat is the US empire itself,” she proclaimed.
Mullin also regularly spews anti-Israel hate. Last year, she was filmed chanting “up, up, up with freedom, down, down, down with Zionist scum,” during a protest in Midtown where she also yelled at Jewish counterprotesters to “just leave!” She’s called Arab countries normalizing ties with Israel “high treason.”
She’s worked with the Samidoun network, a sham charity that acts as a proxy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — a designated terrorist organization, according to the State Department.
Some of her students have denounced her extreme views on professor review websites.
“Radical who should not be within 100 feet of any classroom,” wrote one student on Rate My Professors, where she got an overall grade of 3.8 on a scale of 1 to 5.
“Little knowledge in her rants,” lambasted another. “Talks tons very little knowledge.”
Mullin and CUNY did not return The Post’s request for comment.
