My mother, Liz Moynihan, passed away Nov. 7 in Manhattan, aged 94.

Fittingly, it was Election Day — Liz was campaign manager for her husband Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s four New York Senate campaigns, winning landslide victories on shoestring budgets. 

After her husband’s death in 2003, Liz settled in New York City, where she championed the completion of Moynihan Train Hall and our city’s museums, performing arts and higher education.

When Moynihan served as US ambassador to the United Nations, Liz was seated in the visitor’s gallery during the Nov. 10, 1975, passage of the infamous “Zionism is racism” resolution.

“A great evil has been loosed upon the world,” Moynihan declared after he strode to the lectern.

“The abomination of antisemitism,” he continued, “has been given the appearance of international sanction. The General Assembly today grants symbolic amnesty — and more — to the murderers of the 6 million European Jews.”

And he warned: “The terrible lie told here today will have terrible consequences.”

Moynihan was prophetic indeed: 48 years hence, New York synagogues and delis are smeared with Nazi slogans, Hanukkah celebrations are canceled, Jewish citizens are beaten and threatened daily.

Before her death, Liz watched these events in horror; she had many friends in Israel and deep ties to New York’s Jewish community.

She was especially shocked and repulsed by teachers and students at our once-prestigious universities hoisting signs that read “Gas the Jews,” “Hitler Was Right” and “Zionism Is Racism.”

This pernicious antisemitism is deeply entrenched in our taxpayer-funded state universities.

The State University of New York, City University of New York and City College of New York have for years been investigated for discriminating against Jewish students and voting in favor of the anti-Israeli boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

When then-Israeli Consul General Dani Dayan visited City College in 2018, CCNY Students for Justice in Palestine protested the talk with flyers calling Dayan a “war criminal” and posted “our demands,” which included supporting the BDS movement “that prevents Zionist and imperialist powers from having a platform at CUNY.”

Nothing’s changed.

CCNY’s SJP held a demonstration last week demanding “that CUNY stand with Palestine” and, again, keep “Zionist and imperialist powers from having a platform at CUNY.”

Worse, in her May CUNY School of Law commencement speech, graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed called for the total destruction of Israel and deemed rule of law “white supremacist.”

I sent several emails to the directors of CCNY’s new Moynihan Center at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership requesting a public statement condemning this dangerous hate speech. 

I provided quotations from Amb. Moynihan’s 1975 UN speeches and his successful effort to have the “Zionism is racism” UN resolution overturned in 1991. 

Not a single CCNY official replied.

In September, I boycotted the opening of the CCNY Moynihan Center to protest this normalization of antisemitism.

Such rank cowardice — and deafening silence — in the face of these dangerous anti-American and antisemitic ideologies is capitulation to and collusion with those ideologies, which Amb. Moynihan and his wife Liz would find abhorrent and shameful.

And it’s fueling the violent protests throughout our city, where agitators brandish Nazi swastikas and burn Israeli and American flags.

This shameful failure of leadership shows no sign of reversing course.

Even after Oct. 7, antisemitism runs rampant.

On Monday, CUNY for Palestine posted on X, “No ‘business as usual’ while the imperialist-zionist genocide continues!”

The group also accused Gov. Hochul of “trying to chill the growing movement on our campuses against the US-backed genocide” after she warned, “Calls for genocide on college campuses” violate state and federal law.

The Post reported that students at CUNY’s Queens College Flushing campus last month shouted at Jewish students, “Go back to Poland! Go back to Germany! That’s where you’re from.”

If an institution at Moynihan’s alma mater will not defend its Jewish students, and Jewish citizens of New York, from the virulent bigotry that has captured its administration, faculty and student body, it takes his name in vain.

Maura Moynihan is a journalist and author based in Manhattan and producer of the documentary “Moynihan.”