Susie Charlop

Overview

Susie Charlop has demonized Zionists and opposed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. Charlop also signed [p. 5] a February 2020 petition in support of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

Charlop served on the “E-Board” of the City University of New York School of Law (CUNY Law) chapter of the Jewish Law Students Association (CUNY JLSA) for the 2020-2021 academic year. 

For more information, see the CUNY JLSA chapter profile.

As of September 2023, Charlop’s LinkedIn page said she has worked as an attorney for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender since September 2022.

Charlop was listed [p. 3] as having passed the July 2022 New Jersey bar exam. She was listed under the name “Susan Charlop.”

Charlop graduated [02:02:14] from CUNY Law in May 2022.

Charlop worked [p. 4] as a senior staff editor and staff editor [p. 5] on the CUNY Law Review editorial board for the 2021-2022 academic year and worked as a staff editor for the 2020-2021 academic year. 

As of September 2023, Charlop’s LinkedIn said she graduated with a bachelor's degree in geography from George Washington University (GWU) in 2014. 

As of the same date, Charlop’s LinkedIn said she was located in New York, New York.

As of September 2023, Charlop went by the username “Susie C” on Facebook.

Demonizing Zionists

As of May 9, 2021, Charlop had signed a letter dated “FEBRUARY 2020” and titled: “CUNY Law Student groups, Students, Alumni and Faculty stand with SJP and Palestinian students,” which appeared on the CUNY Law Student Activism Archive website. 

The letter said that signatories “reaffirm our support for Students for Justice in Palestine.” 

The letter continued: “A subset of Zionist activists choose to weaponize the genuine threats of anti-Semitism elsewhere in our society as a tactic to repress activism and harass and threaten Palestinian students and Muslim students more broadly.”

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.

The letter was released shortly after a Jewish student at CUNY Law wrote an op-ed about her experiences with anti-Semitism on campus. The student later dropped out of CUNY Law after harassment she faced from her op-ed, as well as from both the February 2020 letter that Charlop signed and an open letter written by CUNY JSLA that claimed her “experience of antisemitism was nothing more than an attack on our Palestinian classmates who dared to exist, and dared to organize…for the human rights and freedom of the Palestinian people.”

Opposing the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism

As of May 11, 2021, Charlop had signed an open letter authored by CUNY JLSA titled: “Open Letter to the CUNY Community Re: USS IHRA resolution.” The letter was part of a toolkit for CUNY JLSA’s “IHRAoutofCUNY” campaign that began on April 7, 2021.


The open letter that Charlop signed was written by CUNY JSLA and signed by several hundred individuals at CUNY and multiple university groups to convey the signatories’ “concern and alarm over the recent introduction…of the University Student Senate (USS) Resolution ‘Condemning Anti-Semitism and Supporting the CUNY Jewish Community,’” submitted to the USS on March 14, 2021.
 
The open letter expressed opposition to the resolution, which “adopts a definition of antisemitism put forth by the the [sic] International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).”

On April 11, 2021, the CUNY USS posted a Zoom meeting on Facebook where they debated the adoption of two different definitions of anti-Semitism.

The JLSA definition of anti-Semitism was presented to the CUNY USS as part of a larger resolution submitted by CUNY JLSA, CUNY Law SJP and anti-Israel activist Nerdeen Kiswani, under the name “Nerdeen Mohsen.” The resolution claimed [p. 3]: “antisemitism is not an exceptional form of bigotry.”