Bipartisan members of the New York Legislature have joined the wave of outrage responding to City University of New York School of Law’s commencement speech that sought to connect the state of Israel with the issues of white supremacy and colonialism.

Assemblymember Charles Lavine, D-North Shore, chairman of the judiciary committee, sent a letter to CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez that called student-activist and Yemeni immigrant Fatima Mohammed’s May 12 commencement speech “new dressing for the old passion of anti-Semitism.”