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A Jewish legal group is appealing to The New York Bar Association to block CUNY student Fatima Mousa Mohammed from becoming a lawyer after her 'hate-filled', anti-Israel commencement speech which they say proves she lacks the character and fitness to practice the law.
Mohammed graduated from CUNY Law in May and used her now infamous speech to label the NYPD as 'fascist' and denounce 'Israeli settler colonialism'.
After a barrage of public outrage and calls for the largely taxpayer-funded school to be stripped of its handouts, CUNY apologized for her remarks, labeling them 'hate speech'.
The Lawfare Project - which offers pro-bono legal services to benefit Jewish and pro-Israel people and causes - says the apology doesn't go far enough. In a series of letters obtained by DailyMail.com, they are appealing to The New York Bar Association to stop Mohammed from being able to become a lawyer.
In order to become a lawyer, graduates must not just pass the notoriously difficult bar exam, but they must also pass certain 'character and fitness' requirements. In the eyes of The Lawfare Project, Mohammed doesn't qualify.
Fatima Mousa Mohammed, 24, graduated from CUNY Law last month. Now, a legal group is asking the New York Bar Association to stop her from becoming a lawyer based on her 'hate-filled', anti-Israel speech
The New York Bar Association, which will soon begin admitting - or rejecting - law school graduates
'It's our belief that a person who has proved themselves to be a bigot is not fit to practice law.
'You have to wonder if it had been any other minority-protected group, would this even be a question,' Benjamin Ryberg, COO of The Lawfare Project, said.
In letters to the Bar Association including to the Committee on Character and Fitness Ryberg and the group's founder Brooke Goldstein contested: 'Ms. Mohammed has a history of publicly expressing prejudiced and discriminatory views, specifically demonstrating a profound animosity towards the Jewish community.
'These views are fundamentally incompatible with the ethical obligations and principles upheld by the legal profession and leave no question that Ms. Mohammed lacks the character and fitness to practice law.
'It is essential to recognize the potential harm that an individual with
